Patrick Beatty
ABC4 Utah
Jul 23, 2025
If you’ve been wondering, “Where are we now? How did we get here?” in terms of the pandemic, this documentary walks through that.
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Geoffrey Macnab
iNews.co.uk
Jan 16, 2025
4/5
What gives the film its power is the mounting disbelief of the talking heads at the way the Trump White House ignores scientists and basic common sense.
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Amy Smith
InSession Film
Mar 1, 2024
In terms of COVID-19 documentaries I have seen so far, this one is the strongest. It has a clear focus and message, and it does a great job at getting that message across the screen.
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Josh Parham
Next Best Picture
Jun 5, 2022
8/10
The information presented is thorough, yet never comes across as tedious or overwhelmingly grim.
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Witney Seibold
Critically Acclaimed Podcast
Apr 22, 2021
Ready to feel the fresh white-hot Hell of unbearable outrage?
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Sam Adams
Slate
Feb 7, 2021
This isn't the story of an inevitable tragedy. It's the story of a disaster that everyone saw coming and let happen anyway.
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Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 7, 2021
3.5/4
This is about as timely as a documentary can be, and yet it's already in need of an update.
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Johnny Loftus
Decider
Feb 7, 2021
Totally Under Control tells an unfortunate story of bureaucratic indifference to an invisible killer.
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Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice
Feb 7, 2021
If you've been following the COVID news, you may think you know the story behind the U.S. government's response. But we learned new things from this documentary.
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Richard Whittaker
Austin Chronicle
Feb 7, 2021
It takes a village to burn itself to the ground, and no one is better at contextualizing such huge events, and structuring the information into a clear and transparent narrative, than documentarian Alex Gibney.
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Eric Kohn
IndieWire
Feb 7, 2021
B
None of the fancy gimmicky in "Totally Under Control" can top the sheer emotional turmoil on display from its key subjects.
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Pete Hammond
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Feb 7, 2021
Sadly, this expert and powerfully important film likely will spawn a sequel before all of this is finally over. Look at Totally Under Control as Act I.
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Adam Rosenberg
Mashable
Feb 7, 2021
If you've somehow gotten to 2020 without forming a complete, informed opinion of the political landscape in the U.S., carve out two hours and settle in for a crash course.
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Zach Long
Time Out
Feb 7, 2021
3/5
A timely and competent first chapter, but it's only a fragment of a story that's still being written.
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Kevin Maher
The Times (UK)
Feb 7, 2021
4/5
It's sobering, often indecently gripping material that, in broad strokes, confirms widely circulated impressions of the Trump White House as a nest of kleptocratic science-bashing vipers.
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Alex Bentley
CultureMap
Feb 5, 2021
Totally Under Control is yet another indictment of the Trump administration in a year that has been full of them.
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Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
Feb 3, 2021
A damning account of Trump's horrid-and criminally negligent-handling of the crisis.
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Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse
Jan 29, 2021
4/5
It's a haunting collection of facts that would be unbelievable if it wasn't true.
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Pete Vonder Haar
Houston Press
Jan 14, 2021
4/5
While many Americans have embodied the concept of "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge," few have done so with such tragic consequences as Donald Trump.
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Audrey Fox
We Live Entertainment
Jan 3, 2021
As Totally Under Control goes on, it reaches a fever pitch, a fiery and vengeful scream into the void asking how this was ever allowed to happen.
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