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Critics Consensus: The Oath draws on hyper-partisan modern politics for a pointedly funny satire that hits its targets hard and often enough to more than achieve its desired discomfort.
Critic Consensus: The Oath draws on hyper-partisan modern politics for a pointedly funny satire that hits its targets hard and often enough to more than achieve its desired discomfort.
All Critics (83) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (32)
[Barinholtz] lacks storytelling chops, aiming for wildly provocative satire but instead churning out a technically spotty screed.
The Oath appears to crave several things at once, all diametrically opposed.
"The Oath" has a sharp tongue and plenty to say about our times. It's just too bad it can't finish the conversation.
I found it to be the equivalent of a free-swinging slugger who is willing to strike out once, twice, even three times - but then hits one clear out of the park. It's worth the risk-reward ratio.
One thing that's admirable about The Oath is that Barinholtz never apologizes.
Political satire is one of the trickiest of genres; this one, running out of steam and nerve, ultimately becomes a too-familiar example of another genre: the 93-minute movie that feels way, way too long.
The Oathis timely and relevant because it points a big "fat ass patriot" finger at how politics can confuse and divide families and friends.
What's too bad is that The Oath loses control of its instrument just as the film's most riveting performance enters the picture.
The Oath is a horror movie disguised as political satire and you should watch it -- if only to get the conversation across the table started.
The Oath is one of the year's comedic gems.
Jokey white bro solidarity doesn't seem like the kind of understanding across difference that we need now.
The Oath does not rise to the level of Pieces of April, but it offers outlandish satire amid family politics in the midst of a national situation that calls for little thanksgiving.
On the one hand I admire Barinholtz for trying to grapple with the deep seated rage and resentment festering in the heart of America, but he doesn't appear to have figured out how to coherently address it here. The movie is all over the place and the ending offers a resolution that is too simplistic.
Super Reviewer
I mean, I could actually see Ike looking a little like Bill Engvall as he gets older. But forrealz, I can't decide if this would be better/less stressful or just seem completely ridiculous if so much of it didn't hit so close to home.
Did not go the way that I expected, but I'm counting that as a good thing, I don't mind a movie taking a different path to the one I thought it would, my expectations are on me, and a pleasant surprise is still pleasant. Speaking of surprises, I like Tiffany Haddish in in this, something (based on my prior experiences) I didn't think would ever happen.
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