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By Michael D (2,363) on 25 Aug 2017

An interesting look at the man behind Wikileaks and some of the events behind the scenes during the 2016 election. It was ok…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for The Ringer (285) on 09 Aug 2017

Poitras captures all of this in images that shimmer with clarity and precision…

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By Dorothy Woodend (313) for The Tyee (British Columbia) (313) on 03 Aug 2017

Risk doesn't concern itself overly with the history or role played by WikiLeaks, but rather with the man at the centre…

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By Andre M (245) on 22 Jul 2017

Laura Poitras has become a cinema master. This film is brilliantly shot, edited, and directed by Ms…

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By Conor Bateman (24) for 4:3 (202) on 22 Jul 2017

Despite taking a year to recut the film following its Cannes premiere in 2016, it's not apparent Poitras and co-editor Melody London found…

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By Bill R (1,043) on 22 Jul 2017

Laura Poitras has become a cinema master. This film is brilliantly shot, edited, and directed by Ms…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Goethe-Institute Australien Magazine (25) on 19 Jul 2017

An intriguing risk reaching for but never quite grasping the rewards it seeks, just like everything it captures…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 13 Jul 2017

An interesting if rather unfocused documentary by Laura Poitras…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 13 Jul 2017

The result is an interesting but ultimately unsatisfying documentary…

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By Roe Mcdermott (197) for Hot Press (197) on 13 Jul 2017

Entirely valid questions about Julian Assange are ultimately overshadowed by the director's conflict of interest and lack of transparency…

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By Jonathan Dean (62) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 10 Jul 2017

This is a brave, startling film about Julian Assange by Laura Poitras, who made the hit Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour…

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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 Rob L (734) on 26 Jun 2017

Terrible…

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