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described the film as "a mostly admiring documentary, clearly enamored with its subject who has attained movie-star-level fame", and added: "But it doesn't let Fauci off the hook from some of the NIH's early missteps during the AIDS crisis, and his assertion early in the current pandemic that wearing
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gave a negative review of the film, writing: "Propagandists who work at the behest of media corporations and institutions willingly bow to authority, and idolizes Fauci as the face and voice of that authority. Instead of investigating Fauci's despotic sense of moral superiority to enlighten the
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wrote that the film "is at its best when it draws parallels between the pandemics that define Dr. Fauci's career", but added: "It vexes when it leans on straightforward biography ... the timing of the documentary’s more traditional biographical gestures feels more appropriate to a retrospective
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gave the "laudatory but lenient" film a score of 4/5 stars; finding it "easy to agree with its praise for Fauci’s intellectual heroism, especially when reactionary anti-science charlatanism is running rampant across the internet and the political right." David Ehrlich of
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wrote that the film "celebrates a life devoted to public service and the politicization of the response to Covid-19, in roughly that order ... lauding a figure whose critics have seemingly twisted his image beyond recognition in their attempts to demonize him."
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gave the film a grade of B−, describing it as "a fittingly sober and unflashy biodoc that's far less engaging as a portrait of a public servant … than it is as a testament to the values he’s embodied during his many decades of being America’s doctor."
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wrote that the film is "strategically timed the right-wing animosity for "America's Doctor"; justifying the film's being occasionally "as machine-stamped for adulatory portraiture as a commercial bio doc can be." G. Allen Johnson of the
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gave the film a score of 3/5 stars as "a worthwhile account, partly because it looks at Fauci’s whole career." Robert Abele of the
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wrote: "If the goal was to humanize the 80-year-old talking head, filmmakers John Hoffman and Janet Tobias have succeeded."
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gave the film a score of 3 out of 5 stars, calling it "An admiring film that still ends up doing him a disservice."
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was released. Fauci was not paid for appearing in the film, nor did he have any creative control over the film.
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gave the film a score of 1/10, saying that "Rather than a 'documentary,' this is akin to agitprop."
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general public, 's narrowcast promotional doc chooses persuasion over education." Tony Medley of
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consideration, one that has the current pandemic in the rearview mirror." Danny Leigh of the
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to find out about the film, with production taking place in his office at the
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doesn’t find its subject perfect, but honest and human." Neal Justin of the
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Production on the film took place in secret, due to Fauci not wanting
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on September 2, 2021. It was released on September 10, 2021, by
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set to direct and produce. The film was set to be produced by
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would star in a documentary film, with John Hoffman and
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