Split: A Deeper Divide

As an election-season reminder that our democratic system isn't functioning, it serves as a welcome wake-up call

None of this will be news to informed viewers, and the documentary's broad theme necessitates quick, superficial treatment of myriad underlying causes. But it's a solid, fairly even-handed spur for discussion that will be particularly welcome in classroom settings.

Even political foes agree here on today's parlous state of disagreement, leaving you keen to vote but feeling a little defeated already.

It has little to offer a well-informed viewer.

It's an audaciously broad topic, and at less than eighty minutes, you wonder what exactly Split gives us that we haven't received from countless other political documentaries.