The film also relies on another shoddy "study" and the "expertise" of researcher David Lisak, who claimed that most rapes on campus were perpetrated by a small number of repeat offenders. The number comes from self-reported surveys, a notoriously dubious way to collect facts and a dangerous way to create public policy. The film uses debunked statistics to claim that 1-in-5 women will be sexually assaulted while in college. The Washington Examiner has previously detailed - rather extensively - the problems with "The Hunting Ground." "With death-defying leaps of logic on the basis of skimpy and distorted evidence, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering's film does violence to both the legitimate fight for women's rights and the honorable cause of advocacy filmmaking," Taylor wrote. "Speaking of shoddy journalism," Taylor wrote after naming "Truth," the film that attempted to vindicate Dan Rather, the worst film of the year, "the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has succumbed without a murmur to 'The Hunting Ground,' placing on its documentary feature shortlist a loaded piece of agitprop that plays fast and loose with statistics and our sympathy with victims of campus sexual assault." The only female critic to provide for the list, Ella Taylor, listed "The Hunting Ground" as a film that received " empty prestige.
THE HUNTING GROUND CRITICISM MOVIE
Entertainment magazine Variety asked its movie critics to name the worst and most overrated films of 2015.
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