Watergate to Nipplegate

Todd Gilchrist assigns four out of a possible five stars to Inside Deep Throat at Film Force, and calls the movie a captivating portrait of a culture in crisis, both then and now.

[Bailey and Barbato's] latest documentary paints a portrait as much of modern mores as it does of those in the 1970s: then, it was a woman who would go to any length (feature-length, in fact) to untangle her tingle; now, it's a wardrobe malfunction milliseconds long that stops a celebration of violence in its tracks. Without even directly acknowledging that current (and curiously ongoing) controversy, Fenton and Barber draw explicit throughlines from the censorship and close-mindedness of earlier generations to those of today; that they arouse the same incensed responses speaks to just how little we seem to have learned about ourselves.