Maximum Truth

Low-key but funny.

Barinholtz and O’Brien are funny enough to keep this movie bubbling along, even when it’s low on ideas.

It’s painfully funny given that at many times Maximum Truth does speak the truth -- almost too authentically -- about the politics of today.

A satire that cannot decide whether or not its protagonists are true grifters or genuine believers which loses the edge it needs to take on the Jacob Wohls and Jack Burkmans of the world. Barinholtz's The Oath is the film to see instead.

There are scattered laughs here and there, and Barinholtz certainly never stops trying to sell the material...But this is a one-joke affair content to coast on the farcical surface...As such...it overstays its welcome.

Smart, left-leaning mockumentary makes one key error along the way.

And so goes Maximum Truth, a film that goes out of its way to paint its protagonist as an absolute dunderhead, leading to a conclusion where it’s revealed that he is… indeed, a dunderhead.

... manages some scattered big laughs, although the gags gradually become more labored and obvious without digging deeper into the true-life ideological division that inspires them.

Maximum Truth reveals everything it has to offer in the first 10 minutes, then transitions into maximum boredom


[I]t's ... a comedy that isn't willing to dig too deeply for genuine laughs about and perceptions of the world it's trying to skewer.