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- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDirector Lears and co-writer/editor Robin Blotnick had the benefit of knowing the outcomes when they put together the film, so it’s easy to understand why Ocasio-Cortez is the primary focus. But they do an excellent job of weaving in the stories of the three equally impressive candidates.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinAny way you slice it, and even if you're not entirely in agreement with the various subjects' positions on Medicare for all or the Green New Deal, this film is a winner by a landslide.
- 90VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonKnock Down the House has a clear political agenda. It wants to promote the hard work, courage and progressive policies of these women, who have all experienced financial hardship. Still, the film lets its subjects do the talking instead of cluttering things with statistics.
- 90The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisExuberant.
- 83The Film StageThe Film StageRachel Lears’ Knock Down the House is a fun, emotionally powerful, inspiring look at the incredible wave of would-be politicians that sought, in 2018, to challenge status quo Democrats and enact meaningful change.
- 83The PlaylistJordan RuimyThe PlaylistJordan RuimyBeyond Ocasio-Cortez and her magnetism, we may look back at Knock Down the House years from now as a nascent document of the beginnings of a groundswell in American politics.
- 80The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanKnock Down The House is far more effective when it is about the people and the process, not landing quips.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIt all comes together on election night, as Lears shadows Ocasio-Cortez and captures her disbelief as she nears her post-election party and suddenly realizes she has in fact won. It’s precisely the kind of you-are-there moment, one of many, that makes Knock Down the House so satisfying.
- 75IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandKnock Down the House takes its viewers on the inside of a propulsive movement that’s changing by the moment, an energetic look inside history as its being made, even when the results aren’t always the ones that are so fervently hoped for.
- 75Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownRachel Lears’s film is a rebuttal to the position that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's election victory was an incidental event in American politics.