Risk

Released May 5, 2017

1 hr. 24 min.

Documentary

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Filmmaker Laura Poitras gains unprecedented access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his team for six years.

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Critics Consensus

Risk poses knotty questions regarding documentary filmmaking ethics, but remains consistently compelling despite its flaws.

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This should be good. Topic has so much potential. But it is so lacking. How do people get paid to make things such a chore to consume?

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/06/24

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Director makes interesting topic boring. Also inserts herself in story too much.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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The documentary Risk from director Laura Poitras is an engrossing and fascinating portrait of a man that history has yet failed to fully grasp. Julian Assange would like to be thought of as the Robin Hood of the information era, robbing the rich of their secrets and sharing them with the world. But Assange's choice to make himself the public face of his Wikileaks organization has unquestionably gone to his head and rendered him a paranoid and strange figure who believes conspiracies against him are hiding behind every corner. https://geeks.media/movie-review-risk?_ga=2.96904415.1126457623.1513947710-953607229.1513947710

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

As slow as the whole Wikileaks's saga

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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A little choppy around the edges but in the main a continuous narrative all the same. An honest portrayal of Julian Assange & many of his delemmas confronting his struggle for transparency in a world starving for it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Good information. Nice photography. Story not very well told.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Michael Bloom

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K. Austin Collins

The Ringer

Poitras captures all of this in images that shimmer with clarity and precision. There's something wonderfully clear-eyed about Risk, even as the questions and moods it ignites are murky and unsettling.

Aug 10, 2017

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Simran Hans

Observer (UK)

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

Rated: 4/5

Jul 2, 2017

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

A serviceable portrait of vanity.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 30, 2017

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

The release of Poitras' film has become the occasion for large portions of the American media to vent their malicious hatred of Assange.

Feb 11, 2021

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Dustin Chang

ScreenAnarchy

Filmmaker Laura Poitras seems deeply conflicted yet committed to tell the truth in her new documentary.

Jul 17, 2020

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Risk is essential viewing and easily the first must-see documentary I've seen this year.

May 6, 2020

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Laura Poitras gains unprecedented access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his team for six years.

Director: Laura Poitras
Executive Producer: Sam Esmail, Michael Bloom, Adam Pincus, Charlotte Cook, AJ Schnack, Jess Search, David Menschel, Josh Braun
Distributor: Showtime Documentary Films, Neon
Production Co: Praxis Films, First Look Media, Field of Vision
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 5, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 2, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $197.6K

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