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

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K. Austin Collins The Ringer 08/10/2017
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. Go to Full Review Simran Hans Observer (UK) 07/02/2017
4/5
The access is impressive, and the oily, paranoid and "ruthlessly pragmatic" persona that emerges here is candid enough despite Poitras's intermittent narration. Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 06/30/2017
3/5
A serviceable portrait of vanity. Go to Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 02/11/2021
The release of Poitras' film has become the occasion for large portions of the American media to vent their malicious hatred of Assange. Go to Full Review Dustin Chang ScreenAnarchy 07/17/2020
Filmmaker Laura Poitras seems deeply conflicted yet committed to tell the truth in her new documentary. Go to Full Review Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review 05/06/2020
Risk is essential viewing and easily the first must-see documentary I've seen this year. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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E B 01/06/2024 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? See more 04/27/2018 Director makes interesting topic boring. Also inserts herself in story too much. See more 12/28/2017 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 See more 09/19/2017 As slow as the whole Wikileaks's saga See more 09/18/2017 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. See more 09/10/2017 Good information. Nice photography. Story not very well told. See more Read all reviews
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Laura Poitras

Director

Julian Assange

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Laura Poitras

Producer

Brenda Coughlin

Producer

Sam Esmail

Executive Producer

Michael Bloom

Executive Producer

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Movie Info

Synopsis Filmmaker Laura Poitras gains unprecedented access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his team for six years.
Director
Laura Poitras
Producer
Laura Poitras, Brenda Coughlin
Distributor
Showtime Documentary Films, Neon
Production Co
First Look Media, Field of Vision, Praxis Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 5, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 2, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$197.6K
Runtime
1h 24m
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