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By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 09 May 2017

There are no juicy revelations in Risk, so the major takeaway is that sometimes brilliant and subversive thinkers are also problematic…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 May 2017

Risk is far from a narrative masterpiece — it hopscotches all over the place, with even Lady Gaga making an appearance — and it peels only…

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By Adam Clark Estes (1) for io9.com (258) on 08 May 2017

The thing is, you've never seen Assange like this. You've never seen him up close and ugly. And that's exactly why you must see Risk…

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By Filipe C (248) on 08 May 2017

Assange is a pawn of Vladimir Putin and is more interested in self-gain than he is in justice and accountability…

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By Gary M. Kramer (92) for Salon.com (2,725) on 07 May 2017

The most salient feature of Risk is how Poitras remains non-judgmental throughout…

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By Daniel Walber (66) for Nonfics (197) on 07 May 2017

Unlike Citizenfour, Risk creates a much more complex ecosystem of psychological power and its abuse. This is not a prequel or sequel…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for New York Observer (1,400) on 07 May 2017

We may not get a perfect documentary with Risk, but at least we get a very real and truthful sense of just how hard these kinds of movies are to make…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 05 May 2017

It's telling that Poitras has assigned that particular name to her portrait of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 04 May 2017

The vast bulk of Risk is a recap of everything about Assange we've seen in numerous films, both narrative and documentary…

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By John Powers (147) for NPR (1,713) on 04 May 2017

Whether or not it was Poitras' intention, Risk reminds us that grand ideals are finally no grander than the flawed human beings who bring them…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 May 2017

Risk's strongest point is in its insistence that portraying one need not come at the expense of the other, that misogyny and acts of alleged…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 04 May 2017

Poitras has delivered a sporadically fascinating but finally opaque, incomplete portrait, one made no more illuminating by the fact its inscrutable…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 04 May 2017

This doc feels superficial and even redundant, especially if you've seen Alex Gibney's fascinating 2013 documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story…

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By Forrest Cardamenis (19) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 04 May 2017

A living, breathing portrait of a filmmaker and journalist struggling to compartmentalize-a self-portrait by necessity…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 04 May 2017

The film is not one for any viewer who’s never heard of Assange…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 04 May 2017

Unlike Citizenfour, there's not a whole lot here that hasn't already been revealed through the scrutiny of Assange's iconoclastic legacy, but…

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By Josephine Livingstone (57) for The New Republic (897) on 04 May 2017

A messier, weirder, and more interesting documentary than Citizenfour, about a messier, weirder, and more persistently relevant man…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 03 May 2017

There's plenty of access to Assange, but not much insight to his person. Who is he? Why does he believe so deeply in his convictions…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 03 May 2017

Risk doesn't want to put a label on [Assange], but it gives us as good a picture of him as we're likely to get…

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By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (115) for Mass Appeal (9) on 03 May 2017

Poitras balances her documentary with a thrilling momentum that's marked by, strangely enough, a sense of humor…

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