Willmott, who has written numerous documentaries and is a professor of film studies at the University of Kansas, maps an initially plausible trajectory. full review

By slyly nudging both history and the language of television, this mock documentary about an America won by the Confederacy ... manages to be both shocking and strangely banal in equal measure. full review

The satire comes to feel strained and the whole premise gets awfully precious, reducing social subtleties to cinematic simplicities. full review

A sometimes incisive, sometimes amateurish look at race in America, the things we do and tolerate as a nation that are really no different from an America ruled by unrepentant slave-holders. full review

A piece of well-crafted righteous indignation. full review

Funny, disturbing, smart and consciously outrageous. full review

Willmott's battlefield strategy is parody, not drama, and he makes his points with far more invention than finesse. full review

Rarely does a promising premise get such lackluster execution as in the satiric CSA: The Confederate States of America.

Kevin Willmott's clever, very low-budget film rewrites history.

Kevin Willmott pulls off an amazing trick with the fake documentary CSA: The Confederate States of America. On the lowest of budgets, he rewrites history on the grandest scale. full review

Offensive? Yes, and creatively so. full review

A brilliant and irresistible counterfactual overview of American history. full review

CSA is rough around the edges, especially where the acting and some of the film's invented characters are concerned. But the way CSA works out its ideas is so provoking that its drawbacks are not difficult to ignore. full review

Kevin Willmott's ersatz documentary CSA: The Confederate States of America is an act of provocation that's sheer genius in its conceptual simplicity. full review

CSA is a sophomoric film essay that would have barely rated a passing grade from a tougher teacher. full review

Satire via sledgehammer, Kevin Willmott's fake documentary imagines an alternative American history in which the South won the Civil War.

There's a rough, raw kind of genius here, and one that resonates. Because how far off is Willmott's scenario anyway? full review

A mockumentary often as unnerving as it is amusing, CSA: The Confederate States of America kicks off with a simple premise: What if the South had won 'the War of Northern Aggression'? full review