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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

Not entirely successful or appealing - not exactly a delightful evening in the company of scintillating characters - but interesting all the same…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 16 Oct 2013

The movie feels both too soon and too late; an often skillful assemblage of bits and pieces, telling a story we already know and, ultimately,…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 16 Oct 2013

It's an intellectual grappling match that leaves viewers feeling worked over, disoriented and not much the wiser…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Oct 2013

The Fifth Estate gives us an obsessive-compulsive messiah with a taste for martyrdom, and full-screen cascades of computer code in place of…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Richard Roeper.com (322) on 16 Oct 2013

At times The Fifth Estate seems as cutting-edge as the 21st century techno-info revolution it portrays. On other occasions…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 16 Oct 2013

Drama about the controversial information freedom fighter made worth seeing by Benedict Cumberbach's tour de force performance…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 Oct 2013

The Fifth Estate is itself the response of an entrenched and corporatized information system toward something it barely comprehends…

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By David Medsker (361) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 16 Oct 2013

You will be hard pressed to find a movie this year as overly directed as this one…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Oct 2013

As a piece of filmed entertainment, The Fifth Estate shows why things like authorial point of view and visual sensibility are so essential…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Oct 2013

We're snowed by a great deal of intersecting and crisscrossing information in The Fifth Estate, and Singer's script lacks organizational skills…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Oct 2013

This thriller about the game-changing website Wikileaks is as smart about cyberspace as “The Social Network,” but there’s a glitch when…

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By Cathy Jakicic (111) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 16 Oct 2013

Warts and all, the movie definitely succeeds in engaging its audience…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Oct 2013

Whenever The Fifth Estate leaves the involving one-on-one drama between Assange and Domscheit-Berg, you wish it wouldn't…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 16 Oct 2013

Anyone interested in WikiLeaks and Assange in their multi-threaded intrigue would do well to seek out Alex Gibney's The Story of WikiLeaks…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 16 Oct 2013

This is the film equivalent of celebrity journalism. Which, some would say, is no journalism at all…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 16 Oct 2013

You'd be much better off renting We Steal Secrets…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 16 Oct 2013

Emphasizes parts of the story that aren't all that interesting, while soft-pedaling or leaving out all together a lot of the best parts…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 16 Oct 2013

Asks all the important questions but fails to answer the only one that matters: why should we care…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 16 Oct 2013

Condon seems to hope energetic staging and furrowed brows will compensate for a script that’s essentially an exchange of halfhearted arguments…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Oct 2013

The Fifth Estate has big issues about the media and journalistic responsibilities to discuss, but these discussions come across as arch, academic…

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