‘Dominion’ Is the Worst Movie Ever: Watch It Immediately

“Dominion,” the new vegan documentary written, produced, and directed by Chris Delforce, is selling out screenings around the globe. For nearly two hours, viewers endure the most disturbing footage of animals being treated in the most unimaginable ways. There are few scenes that aren’t brutally gut-wrenching, save for the opening credits. The only respite, once the film is underway, is the momentary pause offered by the black screen segment breaks. They’re the film’s only gasps of oxygen in the otherwise suffocating horror of animal abuse.

The film, narrated by an all-star cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sadie Sink, Kat Von D, and Sia, is a follow-up to Delforce’s 2014 “Lucent”, which exposed the Australian pig industry. “Dominion” takes a deeper dive into animal industries — all also in Australia but stereotypical of treatment of animals anywhere in the world where they’re raised for food, fashion, entertainment or experiments.

Delforce is a skillful master here; exposing rampant cruelty on factory farms, the horrific conditions he weaves together compel the viewer to outrage and a near-frantic level of wanting to make it stop. He dives just as powerfully into the horrendous cruelty of the fur industry, puppy mills, animal experiments, the abuses at marine mammal parks, the culling of wild camels. None of it…