Critic Reviews

• J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

  If you still have any questions about the personal character of Donald Trump, check out this muckraking British documentary.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  I imagine Trump's idea of beauty is the antiseptic tackiness of the tinfoil towers he erects around the world.

• Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

  "You've Been Trumped" is a potent study of the intimidating power of money not in theory but on the ground, an examination of how a wealthy man with a boundless sense of entitlement can strong-arm all opposition without really breaking a sweat.

• John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

  Underdogs stand their ground in Anthony Baxter's modest but revealing doc.

• Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com

  As Baxter demonstrates with agonizing, unflinching clarity, the result was a community and a land that were literally rolled over in the name corporate greed - and with the apparent blessing of the local authorities.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  Baxter is a little too staid, too polite to get outrageous - and that keeps the film from outraging us the way it should.

• Liam Maguren, Flicks.co.nz

  Going into this film guarantees one thing: you will be provoked.

• Sarah Boslaugh, PopMatters

  You've Been Trumped follows the progress of Trump's monstrosity ... and it's a horror show to top anything you've ever seen in a Saturday night creature feature.

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

  The star is still Trump. Why this gigantic turd with legs remains the object of fascination to so many speaks unfortunate volumes about the plummeting IQ of the mass audience.

• Noel Murray, AV Club

  A fine, powerful piece of documentary filmmaking, using old-fashioned vérité techniques -- and more than a little audience manipulation -- to show how political influence and media savvy help the wealthy exert their will.

• Calum Marsh, Slant Magazine

  Though Anthony Baxter seems driven by empathy rather than greed, his film is ultimately as reductive and misleading as the expensive Trump PR campaigns he righteously rails against.

• Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  Supremely entertaining documentary about the salt of the earth versus Satan.

• Jason Solomons, Observer [UK]

  It could also be a terrific feature, a John Sayles movie maybe, although it's possible no one would believe a character as odious as the villain of this piece.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Gives a vital airing to a virtually unheard side of a truly sickening story, but it's also thoroughly depressing to watch and you can't help wishing Baxter had tried harder to confront the people responsible.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  The movie is clearly reasoned and elegantly constructed.

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