We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks Reviews
Daily Telegraph
Words on the screen, their power to free you, and also entrap you - if this isn't the internet's deadly blessing, what is?
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| Original Score: 4/5
Observer [UK]
The film creates an astonishing picture of the complex new world of internet communications, intelligence and the ever-expanding web of post-cold war secrecy.
Irish Times
Having recently released documentaries on clerical abuse, Mario Cuomo, Park Avenue, Lance Armstrong and, now, WikiLeaks, Gibney seems in danger of becoming an actualité machine.
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| Original Score: 3/5
3AW
Outstanding, cool-headed documentary.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film4
Compelling, enlightening and utterly accessible, Gibney's ultra-slick pop-doc cleaves through the thorniest thicket of contemporary political issues to find, at its heart, two wholly human stories.
Birmingham Mail
A breathless, dazzling and mind-blowingly complex 130-minute story.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Express
I'd have liked to know more about his private life and background but Gibney has too much other ground to cover.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is London
We Steal Secrets is much concerned with conspiracy theories and may well wind up fuelling new ones.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
A thorough and decently intentioned work, though it accepts a little too glibly the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger line against Assange: that he is a fascinating radical who simply became a paranoid authoritarian.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
With a subject matter that oddly feels both timely and out-of-date, this documentary is packed with telling details about WikiLeaks, Although it gets muddy as it delves into the lives of founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Bradley Manning.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Little White Lies
This is saying something important. Check your Facebook settings.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Financial Times
This is an expertly organised documentary; Gibney's always are.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Skinny
In truth, there's little in Alex Gibney's film that won't be familiar to attentive news watchers, but this skilled documentarian has mastered the art of condensing a vast and complex amount of information into a gripping and entertaining package.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticThis thorough, engrossing film shows how idealistic Aussie hacker Julian Assange took on the might of the US, exposing their military and diplomatic misconduct, then allowed his own murky personal life to tarnish his credibility.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Digital Spy
The range of Gibney's subjects, the rigour of his research and the complexity of his questions make We Steal Secrets breathlessly compelling, but it's the moments of psychological probing that haunt the most.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Scotsman
Noxious government activities may warrant exposure, but Gibney points out that the whistleblowers can be pretty flawed too.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
Alex Gibney adds to his forensic examinations of Enron and Abu Ghraib with another fine documentary.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Alex Gibney has shone his spotlight into a few dark corners and shown us something worthy of discussion.
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| Original Score: B+
Screenwize
A thoughtful documentary about Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, secrets, lies, power and the poorly understood nature of the internet.
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| Original Score: 4/5
