Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s new documentary Prime Minister has won the ‘Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary’ at the Sundance Film Festival, but its release has been met with significant backlash, particularly online.
The documentary, co-directed by Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe, covers Ardern’s five-year tenure as New Zealand’s leader and includes ‘home videos’ shot by her husband, Clarke Gayford, as well as ‘unheard audio clips’ recorded for the Alexander Turnbull Library’s Political Diaries project.
While the film received recognition at Sundance, it has been criticised by some audiences, with many calling it a ‘glorified propaganda piece’ and a ‘self-serving delusion of grandeur’.
Negative reviews flooded IMDb upon the film’s premiere, with ‘dozens of one-star ratings’ pushing the film’s average score ‘down to around 2’.
However, controversy erupted when it was revealed that ‘IMDb deleted the negative reviews’, leaving only a single overwhelmingly positive review and removing the overall rating score.
The move sparked ‘allegations of censorship’, with critics accusing IMDb of protecting the film from scrutiny. Social media users reacted strongly, with one tweet stating:
‘BREAKING: IMDb have DELETED all negative reviews for the taxpayer-funded Jacinda Ardern fan-fiction documentary, Prime Minister. Only one extremely positive review remains! They also removed the average rating score which was sitting around 2. The left cannot handle the truth.’
Another tweet noted that ‘at least 25 negative reviews had been removed’, describing the film as a ‘flop’ with critics ridiculing its portrayal of Ardern’s leadership.
Despite the backlash, the film has been ‘praised by some critics for its focus on Ardern’s response to the Christchurch mosque attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and her emphasis on leadership through so-called ‘kindness and empathy’. However, detractors argue that the film glosses over ‘controversial aspects of her disasterous tenure’, including strict pandemic policies, economic challenges, and extensive public dissatisfaction, reflected in plummeting poll numbers, before her resignation.
Further fuelling the controversy, critics have questioned the documentary’s funding, with some claiming that New Zealand taxpayers are indirectly supporting Ardern’s continued public engagements and attempts to ‘rewrite history’.
One tweet alleged that Ardern receives ‘funding from the Gates Foundation, Democratic-linked think tanks, and earns $250,000 per speech on the global speaking circuit’, while New Zealand taxpayers still cover her security costs, estimated at over $1 million per year.
The backlash also extends to Ardern’s recent media appearances, where she spoke about global issues, climate commitments, and political movements. Some critics labelled these interviews as thinly veiled attacks on conservative leaders and an attempt to position herself as an international political figure.
Jacinda Ardern is at some 3rd rate Hollywood studio promoting her new film about her and brings up the Treaty Principles bill ‘generating the biggest protest in NZ ever”.
The whole interview is a thinly veiled attack on the NZ Govt, Trump, MAGA and international push back… pic.twitter.com/vsH2Pnd6xY
— Holyhekatuiteka (@2ETEKA) January 26, 2025
NZ Harold: “World reacts to Ardern documentary” pic.twitter.com/FxaXMfrc6z
— Izzy ! com’on mate ! (@LBTross) January 29, 2025
“The Ardern movie won the ‘Audience Award’ in the ‘World Cinema Documentary’ category” ? Sounds like winning the Best Broom Closet prize in the Affordable Homes category on The Block.
— Jonno L (@JonnoL32552677) February 1, 2025
BREAKING: IMDB have DELETED all negative reviews for the taxpayer-funded Jacinda Ardern fan-fiction documentary, Prime Minsiter
Only one extremely positive review remains!
They also removed the average rating score which was sitting around 2
The left can not handle the truth pic.twitter.com/6o0Uv1Y0RC
— NuZillund (@NuZillund) January 30, 2025
Very much on trend for unpopular politicians and associates. ” brichel” macron also has ” her docu” made🤮🤮.
( Brichel = brigitte+ jean michel = trans)
You don t think i am going to spend money to watch that kind of cr*p, do you ??
If you are a taxpayer you already have/are
Oh why doesnt she just PISS OFF!!!!!!
Ardern is like cat piss on the rug, can’t shift the stain and the smell remains forever.
cat piss odor/stain = can be removed with ordinary white vinegar. Plenty of it
She’s emulating her hero, Hillary Clinton.
Fake
Forced down everyone’s throats
Refuses to go away
Jacinda will never ever piss off sadly.
He/she is an obstinate unflushable turd sadly.
Another way they money launder.
Next a ‘painting’
“So…it’s like… well I dunno whether YOU see it this way, but some would say it’s as if you’re creating a two tier society…”
“That IS what it is. Yup. Yup.”
More insight into her character in those few short words than a hundred phony documentaries.
I hope the cinema was well stocked with barf bags.
You beat me to it. That most definitely is what it is. Yip, Yip.
As Solzhenitsyn said, and wrote, garbage like this documentary show that the media of all stripes is still very much in the hands of the same people who have used it to bring down western society.
How I wish Ardern would return to New Zealand to give a talk about global issues, climate commitments, political movements, kindness, empathy and her one source of truth – and let an independent camera crew make a documentary of that!
I would guess that this film will be the hit comedy of the year as no one will ever be able to take her seroiusly unitl she is rotting in a prison cell for what she did to this country.
Got the ‘crowd’ award, but the crowd ain’t havi’n it.
You only try to reinvent yourself when you are already irrelevant.
Yeah you can always tell someone is super popular with the masses when they have to delete posts and lock all comments 😆
Ardern was/is/always will be a complete and utter maggot.
At least maggots fulfil a useful life cycle function.
I love film and use to write a lot for IMDB, until I caught them removing thumbs up for reviews I wrote, that criticised the woke aspect of some films. I’ not all surprised by this, they are I believe owned by Amazon who turned out the God awful, woke LOTR debacle. Suffice to say, these politicians can knock out puff pieces about themselves all the like, people know the truth of them for better or worse and tell their children. Try as you might, these days more than ever, you can’t escape the unblinking eye of history.
Sickening evil woke communists.
I wont’t ever use IMDB again, that’s for sure.
Yep.
A genuine puke.
Hilarious to see the Sundance Festival is entirely populated by indoctrinated far-left fringe woke morons.
Imagine being stupid enough to actually believe this blatant cynical communist propaganda.
What’s next for her?
A wax museum figure?
A statue in a park somewhere?
She clearly exists in an alternate universe.
She shoud go there and never come back.
Well she got the dame hood, maybe a Victoria cross? A Nobel peace prize? A burial site next to the queen of England? A state funeral? A national day of remembrance for ‘Jah cinder’? A special, public holiday where we all pretend to be kind? festival of Jah Cind? Grab your headscarves, your Allbirds and your dirty reusable covid mask and boogie on down while throwing around rainbows and unicorns! Celebrate Jabcinda month? A city designed with the outline of her face? Maybe name a city after her? Or a country? Jacindastan? When will it ever be enough for her to finally be happy and JUST F#CK OFF!
NEVER use a film to get your “pay.”
Book deal is ALWAYS the best way.
Sundance is an outlet for questionable material that has indoctrinations using the slant of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin…!
Oh wow. I thought I was going to be sick.
These women are a disgrace. Jacinda has NEVER been kind. Is she just acting like she doesn’t know we all HATE HER.
A beloved politician DOESNT NEED SECURITY.
Don’t ever come back here you narcissistic sociopathic deluded individual.
You’re NOTHING to us. You wrecked our country and divided us likely never to be repaired, now just F off. When you’re done doing that just F off again and take those two simpering lefty poor excuses of women with you.
I think the song “Dear Jacinda” by Red sums up everything I feel about that lying b1tch. And to think I voted for her 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Sorry everyone. The only upside is that I will NEVER be fooled again. Fully awake now.
I am a woman by the way so you can’t call me a misogynist.
Ask any sane person in NZ. “Who is the most hated women in NZ?
Hollyweird as imdb Hollydoes, while the Jabaconda is a synthetic gene transfected parasite pretending to be a predator. It is merely fulfilling its miserable, wicked destiny.
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