A film that is triggering progressive critics is becoming a viral sensation after the director called it "an inconvenient truth."
The movie stars actor Armie Hammer as a man who takes justice into his own hands after he feels the government and law enforcement have failed to protect their citizens.
'Racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist.'
'X' rated"Citizen Vigilante" has been called "anti-migrant," "racist, xenophobic," and "incomprehensible," yet audiences seem to love it.
With a fan score of 94% on popular review site Rotten Tomatoes, critics seem once again to be at odds with audiences while drawing a political line in the sand.
A huge social media push has seen the movie top the streaming charts, with multiple outlets reporting on Monday that "Citizen Vigilante" soared to No. 1 on Amazon Prime's "Top 10 movies to rent or buy," where it still stood at the time of this writing.
The film was reportedly No. 2 on Apple TV's top movie list on Monday as well.
This all came after X owner Elon Musk posted "Citizen Vigilante" for free download on his platform last Thursday — with director Uwe Boll's permission — garnering at least 8 million views by Musk's own account.
Boll responded on X, "Dear Elon thank you. Donald Trump needs to see the film."
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Banned abroad
By all accounts, the film draws on anti-immigration sentiments that are becoming popular around the world, and even references real-life migrant crimes for its story.
The movie has already been banned in Germany because it was found to be "inciting violence against migrants," director Boll told Variety in June.
Boll called it "deliberate censorship" that was "on purpose."
In an email to Newsweek, the director said his movie "shows an inconvenient truth what all other movies out there don't want to show or try to sugarcoat in their productions."
Boll added, "The audience wants real films again — bold and with impact and about reality."
Bans and negative reviews have been overtaken by the film's momentum, and the flick was just acquired by Quiver Distribution for a worldwide push, except for in the U.K., German-speaking territories, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Many such (angry) casesMany critics have not enjoyed the film, with some reviewers declining to even score it.
For example, Stefan Birgir Stefans called the film "brain dead" and gave no score, while Variety's Todd Gilchrist similarly gave no rating and said the director was "deliberately sabotaging his star."
Nicholas Bell said the film was "magnifying its xenophobia through the beacon of far-right agitprop," while Joseph Robinson called it "a discriminatory parable."
It was U.K. outlet the Guardian that dubbed "Citizen Vigilante" as "anti-migrant" on Tuesday, with Ready Steady Cut describing the film as "utterly incurious and incomprehensible, but politically barbed."
Critic Jonathon Wilson argued the film was for people who believe "immigrants are to blame for all the violent crimes in the West to see as a rubric for defending their homeland."
Tyler Thier of In Review Online summarized the movie as "racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop manufactured to piss off the 'woke Left.'"
The consistent use of "agitprop" by reviewers is, interestingly enough, a reference to pro-communist propaganda used by the Soviet Union.
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Millionaire left-wing comedian Rosie O'Donnell is being slammed on social media for posing with fellow comedian Kathy Griffin in front of a private jet after recently attacking wealthy people as "embarrassing" and asking, "How much [money] can you have?"
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President Donald Trump on Monday shared an image of a golden bald eagle adorning the White House, the post coming as America readies to celebrate its 250th birthday on Saturday.
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People in Mexico are rallying behind an unknown vigilante who has taken to the streets, hunting down thieves and leaving them taped up for authorities. Mexican authorities have already begun investigating the incidents, aiming to arrest the vigilante.
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Conservative former First Lady of Peru Keiko Fujimori became the winner of Peru's extremely slow presidential runoff election vote count this week, pending an official proclamation as the next president-elect by the nation's electoral authorities.
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After 40 years in Congress, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has revealed what comes next.
Pelosi has announced the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at University of California, Berkeley, which the school described as a "nonpartisan" academic center set to open in January 2027.
During her speakership in 2009, House Democrats achieved an all-time congressional record for party-line voting.
"I viewed this as a liberation for me from the political, not politics, but partisanship," Pelosi, 86, told CNN in an article published Monday. "Because you're going to an academic institution. It's about what our founders had in mind with our Constitution, and it's a beautiful story to tell."
The institute will sit inside Berkeley's political science department, focusing on research, civic engagement, and training future leaders, according to UC Berkeley. Pelosi is slated to co-teach a course on Congress beginning in spring 2027, while the institute will also run a visiting fellows program and an annual forum for prominent leaders.
Pelosi agreed to personally raise $25 million toward the school's broader $50 million campaign — a target she said she hit "quite easily."
Pelosi said the idea of a bipartisan academic center particularly intrigued her. "I loved it because they talked about human rights in the U.S. and in the world, addressing the challenges to our democracy, the climate, and economic income inequity," she said of Berkeley's pitch.
Pelosi, who was first elected to Congress in 1987 and became speaker 20 years later, has been no stranger to squeezing out members of her own party who stepped out of line. In 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Pelosi of "singling out newly elected women of color," calling her treatment of the progressive "Squad" "outright disrespectful."
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On one of the rare issues with real bipartisan momentum in recent years — banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks — Pelosi first opposed the idea and was later only lukewarm toward it, even as scrutiny mounted over her husband's frequent stock trades during her tenure as speaker.
Her most notable legislative achievement, the 2010 Affordable Care Act, passed the House without a single Republican vote. Pelosi reportedly dismissed a more bipartisan version of the bill as "Kiddie Care," pushing for the more sweeping, partisan version that ultimately passed 219-212.
Pelosi's clash with Trump produced one of the most viral partisan moments of his presidency when she tore up her copy of his 2020 State of the Union address on camera, calling it "a manifesto of mistruths."
During her speakership in 2009, House Democrats achieved an all-time congressional record for party-line voting — sticking together 94.2% of the time, a hallmark not of compromise but of caucus control.
GovTrack's most recent report card found she introduced fewer bills than anyone in the California delegation, and in 2016, joined bipartisan legislation less frequently than any other House Democrat. GovTrack notes, however, that party leaders often post unusual scores given the nature of their role.
Even in the same CNN interview announcing her "liberation" from partisanship, Pelosi couldn't resist a parting partisan shot, declaring unprompted that Democrats are "going to win the House" in November.
The institute is set to launch in January 2027, with a public exhibit on Pelosi's career opening at the Bancroft Library that spring.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down limits on coordinated spending between candidates and political parties, which likely serves as a boon for Republicans as the GOP seeks to retain its majorities in Congress.
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The U.S. had 7.6 million open positions last month, easily beating economist expectations of around 7.3 million.
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At first glance, genetically mutated rats in New York, Iran’s missile program, Britain’s grooming gang scandal, attacks on ICE facilities, and the rise of democratic socialism in America’s largest cities appear to have nothing in common.
But according to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, they’re all examples of the same fundamental principle at work.
“Researchers now at Rutgers University found the vast majority of house mice and brown rats across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., have now genetically mutated to shrug off all of the poison that we have thrown at them for decades,” Glenn reports.
“Every rat that survived a less-than-lethal dose handed that resistance to the next litter. And generation by generation, we bred a more poison-resistant rat,” he adds.
Another story, Glenn says, is that the Trump administration is “asking Congress for $88 billion in supplemental funding tied to the Iran war, with most of it going to the Pentagon and replacing strained missile stockpiles.”
“Yet Tehran is boasting that the deal leaves its missile program untouched while it negotiates with Oman to charge costs for passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” he continues.
“This is a lesson that we refuse to learn, and the world has already learned it about us. We’re never, ever fighting a war enough to kill it. We never fight them hard enough to end it because we get bored, distracted,” he adds.
Glenn also points to the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, which dropped a bombshell: Muslim grooming gangs targeted and trafficked young white girls throughout the U.K.
“For 20 years, British authorities saw this, looked away, terrified of exactly the accusation now being aimed at the report. A half-confronted evil doesn’t shrink from embarrassment. It learns which words will make you flinch,” he explains.
And there is another story Glenn believes is related to the prior three: “More than a dozen defendants got prison for the 2025 attack on an ICE facility, and Rashida Tlaib called the sentencing bull crap.”
One of those arrested shot an ICE officer in the neck.
“The guy who pulled the trigger got 100 years, and Rashida Tlaib is saying this is crazy,” Glenn says.
“We’re jailing bodies, but we’re not touching the belief that told them that violence was righteous. So the belief goes on looking for more recruits,” he continues.
And now, socialists are “about to run four of America’s biggest cities.”
“Mamdani’s machine swept New York,” Glenn says.
“So, line up all of these stories, and the same law runs underneath all five. It is the oldest law in biology, and it does not care about your politics,” he continues. “A poison that doesn’t kill teaches.”
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Birthright citizenship has been "grossly abused," Speaker Mike Johnson said, reacting to the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling.
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