Matt Walsh’s documentary on the grift of the DEI industry remained in the top ten at the box office this weekend, coming in at number seven nationwide as compared to other major studio films. “Am I Racist?” debuted last weekend at number four.
The movie also broke $9 million in total gross revenue, according to Box Office Mojo. The Daily Wire podcaster posted about this achievement on X, noting that despite the film’s huge success, not a single mainstream critic has reviewed “Am I Racist?” yet.
“After our second weekend: ‘Am I Racist?’ remains in the box office top 10, it’s the top grossing documentary of the year, top 5 political doc in the last decade, earned 3x its production budget, and our total gross moves us into the top 40 for all docs, all time. And counting,” Walsh shared.
“Still not a single review from a single mainstream publication though,” he continued in a follow up.
After our second weekend: “Am I Racist?” remains in the box office top 10, it’s the top grossing documentary of the year, top 5 political doc in the last decade, earned 3x its production budget, and our total gross moves us into the top 40 for all docs, all time. And counting.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 23, 2024
Every film that came out ahead of “Am I Racist?” this weekend was playing on more screens, sometimes twice as many as Walsh’s film.
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The documentary currently has a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes from more than 1,000 verified users, making it Certified Hot per the review website’s parameters. It has a 73% critic’s score from the reviewers who dared to make their opinions known. YouTube star Jeremy Jahns came under fire from fans when he posted his positive review.
“Matt Walsh is surprisingly funny,” Jahns said in his review, adding that he had he had a “good time and some good laughs” while watching it.
Podcast host Joe Rogan had a similar reaction. “Your movie is really funny. It’s really funny,” Rogan told Walsh during an interview last week. “By myself, laughing out loud hysterically today,” he went on. “I watched it in the sauna, I watched it in the gym. … It’s one of the best comedies I’ve seen in a long time because there’s so many moments in it that are so uncomfortable.”
In an X post last week, Walsh detailed some of the reactions he got from mainstream critics who were sent advance copies of the movie to review. He described getting “a flurry of unprofessional emails from independent critics who were enraged we’d even ask them to review the film.”
“One of them wrote that he won’t waste any ‘professional time’ on a movie opening in over 1,500 theaters because I was involved,” Walsh wrote alongside a screenshot of the reply.
Another critic replied, “You’d have to strap me to a chair like Malcolm McDowell to get me to watch this thing,” while a third said, “Ew. Take me off of this list.”
“This isn’t a mistake. You’d be hard-pressed to find another film that opened in >1,500 theaters that was completely snubbed by mainstream critics. If ‘Am I Racist?’ were terrible, these outlets could have reviewed it & trashed it. But the reality is they’re afraid of it,” he concluded.
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