EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Critic Reviews
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Based upon 7 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Regardless of your personal views, Expelled's heavy-handed bias (a visit to Darwin's home gets the same eerie music as a tour of Dachau) is exasperating.Read the full review
As a work of nonfiction filmmaking it is a sham and as agitprop it is too flimsy to strike any serious blows.Read the full review
Managing to make the films of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock look like dry, scholarly treatises by comparison, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed more than lives up to its subtitle.Read the full review
Expelled is an unprincipled propaganda piece that insults believers and nonbelievers alike.Read the full review
Surely there's a more nuanced argument to be made in favor of ID than pinning the old "bad as Hitler" canard on pro-evolution scientists?Read the full review
While he gets points for addressing the debate, the way in which Stein goes about it undermines his efforts to be even-handed and intellectually rigorous.Read the full review
While roving interviewer Ben Stein extracts some choice soundbites from scientists on both sides of the creation-vs.-evolution debate, the film's flippant approach undermines the seriousness of its discourse, trading less in facts than in emotional appeals.Read the full review
