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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 05 Jul 2017

Poitras finds fresh ground to cover, bringing the important stories of the past back into the present spotlight where it's as important as…

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By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 01 Jul 2017

The access is impressive, and the oily, paranoid and ruthlessly pragmatic persona that emerges here is candid enough despite Poitras's intermittent…

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By Nick Hasted (66) for The Arts Desk (640) on 29 Jun 2017

Assange is a gift to cinema. Poitras provides gripping evidence of who he has become, but flinches from it…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 28 Jun 2017

Julian Assange is less than delighted by Laura Poitras's intimate documentary, filmed over six years with the co-operation of the controversial…

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By Alan Corr (65) for RTÉ (Ireland) (721) on 28 Jun 2017

Just like its subject, this is a jarring, non-linear and chaotic documentary…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 28 Jun 2017

It's to Poitras's credit that she tries delving into the subtler, more inward and more intransigent workings of the Assange brain…

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 28 Jun 2017

With so much covered in the final quarter of an hour, it's hard, in spite of the film's shortcomings, not to want a follow-up…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 Jun 2017

As a portrait of power gained and lost, of unchecked self-absorption and what drives people like Assange to do what they do, it’s absolutely…

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By Tom Dawson (244) for Total Film (3,532) on 25 Jun 2017

Director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) charts her own feelings towards her subject, yet unanswered questions abound surrounding WikiLeaks’…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2017

Poitras, with a suitably furtive technique that amplifies both the paranoia and the pettiness, struggles to define Assange…

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By Cj Johnson (473) for ABC Radio (Australia) (677) on 14 Jun 2017

With the one-two punch of Citizenfour and now Risk, Poitras has peeled back layers of international secrecy, conspiracy, surveillance and hypocrisy,…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Student Edge (256) on 12 Jun 2017

The murky ethics behind the making of Risk fit the murkier ethics of its subject, meaning this is one of those accidentally good movies that…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 01 Jun 2017

The film captures some impressively candid footage…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 29 May 2017

the movie does capture the tedium one assumes Assange faces on a daily basis now, so on that level it's hard to deny that Poitras has succeeded…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 23 May 2017

This may be Poitras' Nate Parker moment. The most recent edit of Risk is a muddled, psychodramatic mess shaped by a thirst for retribution…

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By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 18 May 2017

A film that takes on a life of its own and defies the director's best intentions…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 16 May 2017

If Poitras fails in explaining all of Assange's contradictions, that says more about his secretive character than about her journalistic skills…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 11 May 2017

In total, Risk is a compelling piece of viewing, as long as those viewers understand its limitations…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 May 2017

PBS shows Frontline or American Experience (Poitras is American, after all) would be a better venue for an edited version and would probably…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 11 May 2017

For all its proximity, Poitras' film never gets beneath [Assange's] exterior…

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