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By Cj Johnson (473) for ABC Radio (Australia) (677) on 02 Jul 2013

If you're looking for a really comprehensive, clear, evenhanded and thoroughly entertaining examination of, well, the story of WikiLeaks, master…

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By Tom Glasson (221) for Concrete Playground (635) on 02 Jul 2013

A fascinating insight into Wikileaks and the two men behind the world's largest ever whistleblowing scandal…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 01 Jul 2013

This look at WikiLeaks -- and founder Julian Assange -- makes its case long before the film stops talking…

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By Hannah Mcgill (136) for The List (2,018) on 01 Jul 2013

It portrays a seething nest of highly volatile personalities whose motivations are fraught with ambiguities and contradictions, and a chain…

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By Ed Gibbs (248) for The Sunday Age (488) on 29 Jun 2013

Alex Gibney's film is an absorbing examination of the world's most infamous information portal…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 28 Jun 2013

Gibney doesn't set out with an agenda either to pillory or to sanctify Assange; he seeks out the various profiles that Assange has shown his…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 12 Jun 2013

Sometimes it takes a feature-length documentary to stitch together a story we think we already know…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 12 Jun 2013

With an approach that feels like a thriller, Gibney looks at both sides of the debate over the site's purpose and effectiveness…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Jun 2013

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is at once an awkward mingling of two complex life stories and a gripping, necessary look at how information…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 05 Jun 2013

Gibney is as dramatic a storyteller as the Hollywood directors with whom he competes for our attention, and he employs a big bag of tricks…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 05 Jun 2013

A real-life cyber-thriller with real-life consequences, Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting and revelatory…

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By Kristin Tillotson (85) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 05 Jun 2013

Gibney builds a remarkable level of suspense, given how exhaustively WikiLeaks has been covered in the media…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 05 Jun 2013

How do you make this a motion picture? Some might call it sleight-of-hand, but it's something Mr…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 05 Jun 2013

Gibney continues his run as the premier nonfiction filmmaker working today…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 04 Jun 2013

Arguably furthers WikiLeaks' stated purpose, but with a necessary whiff of the investigative filmmaker's instinctive skepticism…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Jun 2013

Despite its wonky-Washington theme, We Steal Secrets ends up being a surprisingly soulful and, yes, even moving story of hubris, good intentions…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 May 2013

The film is fascinating and provocative, deftly navigating complex personalities and shifting allegiances…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 May 2013

The sequence in which Manning confides in former hacker Adrian Lamo and gets turned in to the FBI supplies the kind of human drama that has…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 May 2013

The movie's especially deft at exposing spin, whether it's the US media's or Assange's…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 May 2013

Works...as a saga of self-destructive behavior by capable people whose judgment was perverted by smugness about their own principles…

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