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- 2025
- R
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
- 2025
- R
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
Summary A father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane (Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay) — follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe ...
Directed By: Christian Swegal
Written By: Christian Swegal
- 2025
- R
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
- 2025
- R
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
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Summary A father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane (Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay) — follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe ...
Directed By: Christian Swegal
Written By: Christian Swegal
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
67
60% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
67
60% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Jul 14, 2025
The movie is a real-world thriller that’s also a riveting character study that’s also a portrait of the place where the reactionary politics of today curdles into obsession.
Jul 14, 2025
Sovereign is some of Offerman’s most complex and disturbing work. It’s a fine film, too.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
6.5
60% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
33% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
7% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
6.5
60% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
33% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
7% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Jul 18, 2025
To critics that are mad this isn't a documentry like feature about the sovereign citizen movement. You missed the point. This isn't a political film. It's a character study. About a real person. Why would I know this? Because my father was not that different from the main character here. Not politically but the self righteusness, the anger, the need to be always right, the weird control over legal language where you're never sure if they are full of **** or correct because it often works. Not only that it's the picture of my mothers 2nd husband and unfortunately my little (now 16 year old) sisters father. This is also a story of how those men can be emotionally abusive. I love my father. He is a much better person now but this is a very detailed, and true portrait of a very specific type of a man
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Jul 11, 2025
A meeting of “Leave No Trace” and “Hell or High Water,” “Sovereign” is a thought provoking political work whose sympathetic eye is given focus by its potent cast.
Jul 1, 2025
Offerman’s Jerry Kane is a villain for the ages, a man with a point of view that more people share than we’d like to believe. He makes Sovereign must-see cinema for understanding not just a “type,” but a movement and a moment, and just where they’re taking us if we let them.
Jul 8, 2025
Though Offerman buoys the film with terrifying aplomb, Sovereign is a missed opportunity to examine the cascading fallout from living in a country that fails its people and breeds violence.
Jul 10, 2025
Despite a strong performance from Nick Offerman, Sovereign is a film that’s inescapably slight and with little to say with its painfully relevant story of modern extremism.
Jul 15, 2025
Powerful film. Cried my eyes out at the end. The performances, writing and directing are all top notch. It's a slow burn but worth every minute. Offerman deserves an Oscar.
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Aug 6, 2025
Very watchable. Gritty. Good showcase for Nick Offerman in my opinion. Boy was good.
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Jul 15, 2025
Offerman is stellar , the recent Quaid Renaissance also keeps being fascinating. The source material here... well, I read the review of the family member with interest. The broader problem I have with films like these is way older than this one film . Even before woke, Hollywood was obviously , painfully, left wing. These days it's not even funny anymore (which in the 90s it still was , a running gag ) The movie industry really needs to be more diverse , and I don't mean their colors and pronouns. Where are all the great films and critical studies about antifa , about extreme left wing organizations ? About the many many wrongs within Islam and its wave of extremist teachings now taking over many Western European cities. Where are the films about American cities that were run into the ground through corruption within the Democratic party. I don't see them. I don't even mind being critical of Maga, I don't care. But our media are painfully , horribly , myopic and dumb in terms of politics and a critical view of where western civilization is heading .
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Jul 12, 2025
This film is based on an event that happened in 2010. Nick Offerman plays a man who claims to be a Sovereign Citizen, holding an anti-establishment worldview based on distrust of the government. He and his son (Jacob Tremblay) travel the country running his seminar about challenging the system. Offerman’s performance centers the story with determined force, while Tremblay’s performance is heartbreaking. Dennis Quaid, as the local sherif, turns in a deep characterization as well. Writer/director Christian Swegal could have benefitted from listening to his editor: The early lecture scenes take up too much of the film’s narrative and get repetitive. The inevitable tragedy has powerful aspects, but the final encounters are less effective that the situation merits. It remains an interesting glimpse into extremism with potent performances to drive the story. NOTE: Listen for Offerman’s real-life wife Megan Mullally as the radio host.
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