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- 85TheWrapTodd GilchristTheWrapTodd GilchristPeople who wake up each morning dreading what President Trump has said or done the previous night may not want to revisit the emotional rollercoaster of Election Day 2016, but 11/8/16 nevertheless provides a fascinating portrait of the country’s mood, filtered through the real-time reactions of a cross-section of Americans with various political affiliations.
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThis minute-by-minute rundown is priceless history, alive with the anxious textures of American life right then, a film that in twenty years will reward attentive viewing. It’s also, for many of us alive in the now, probably too much too soon, the tearing open of wounds that only are just starting to scab over.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe huge political and social divide is in full evidence, but the strength of the doc is that it shows that those sides aren't as monolithic as the red and blue blocks on electoral maps suggest.
- 70The New York TimesKen JaworowskiThe New York TimesKen JaworowskiConsidering all that’s been written and said over the last year, there’s not much new to learn from 11/8/16. But the film remains engaging for its stories, and is likely to be more instructive in the future, when passions have cooled. Judging by most people here, that won’t be soon.
- 60Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThough smoothly edited and breezily humane, 11/8/16 is still little more than a depiction of parallel roller coasters, one of which many voters felt was headed into a shop of horrors.
- 50Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonToo often, the documentary’s highly calibrated curation reduces its subjects to mere demographic representations.
- 42The A.V. ClubJosh ModellThe A.V. ClubJosh ModellPerhaps when history has had its way with this era, it will be enlightening to re-experience U.S. presidential election night, 2016. But all 11/8/16 does from this near distance is confirm a recent memory and reinforce some safe assumptions.