Another take on the 'America' movie

A couple of Sundays ago, the Inter Lake devoted a large part of the Montana Perspectives section cover page to three letters effusively praising the new Dinesh D’Souza movie “America.”

These positive reviews were not surprising, since the letter writers were among a select group that had been invited to a special showing of the movie. 

The Inter Lake made no attempt to balance this outpouring of praise with the reactions of professional movie critics around the country, 90 percent of whom gave “America” a resounding thumbs-down. Some samples:

Rafer Guzman, Newsday — “You could bother debating D’Souza on history and semantics and rudimentary logic, but chances are you’d end up feeling like Meathead arguing with Archie Bunker.”

David Ehrlich, AVClub — “Graced with a hilariously definitive title, ‘America’ is astonishingly facile, a film composed entirely of straw man arguments.”

Louis Black, Austin Chronicle — “This is an odious effort because it is so hugely hypocritical and ultimately self-serving.”

Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com — “The cinematic equivalent of one of those forwarded e-mails of mostly discredited “facts” that you receive from an uncle.”

I do not expect the Inter Lake to feature these comments in a box on the opinion page. But I think moviegoers are entitled to be exposed to more than one opinion before they spend their money. —Jacqueline Adams, Kalispell