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Informative and enraging in equal measure, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz uses its subject's tragic tale to deliver an impassioned call to action.
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Talking (egg)heads reiterate outrage over the Obama Justice Department's witch hunt against him, but Swartz's ex-girlfriend adds heart when she tearfully recalls first seeing the ''end date'' on his Wikipedia page. Dec 3, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Talking (egg)heads reiterate outrage over the Obama Justice Department's witch hunt against him, but Swartz's ex-girlfriend adds heart when she tearfully recalls first seeing the ''end date'' on his Wikipedia page.
Joe McGovern
The film builds up a portrait of a brilliant, driven, complex young man who's likely to be an iconic figure in the future, a sort of digital-age Che Guevara. Aug 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film builds up a portrait of a brilliant, driven, complex young man who's likely to be an iconic figure in the future, a sort of digital-age Che Guevara.
Leslie Felperin
The sad untimely death of precocious internet maven Aaron Schwartz is the focus of this chilling doc. Aug 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The sad untimely death of precocious internet maven Aaron Schwartz is the focus of this chilling doc.
D'Arcy Doran
Fascinating, maddening, and ultimately very sad. Jul 10, 2014 | Rating: 3/4
Fascinating, maddening, and ultimately very sad.
Moira MacDonald
The film not only canonizes its hero - who committed suicide amid a nasty federal indictment against him - but also brushes aside any big-picture concerns about national security and Internet piracy. Jul 9, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The film not only canonizes its hero - who committed suicide amid a nasty federal indictment against him - but also brushes aside any big-picture concerns about national security and Internet piracy.
David Lewis
Aaron Swartz's story should make you furious. Jun 28, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Aaron Swartz's story should make you furious.
Brian Tallerico
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz simmers with sadness, cynicism and starkness yet never once turns its back on the celebrated digital-aged declaration in a chosen soul out to right the wrong and mince politics with printout sheets. Nov 7, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz simmers with sadness, cynicism and starkness yet never once turns its back on the celebrated digital-aged declaration in a chosen soul out to right the wrong and mince politics with printout sheets.
Frank Ochieng
An insightful look into one individual's struggle with government information policy that has much wider implications. Oct 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An insightful look into one individual's struggle with government information policy that has much wider implications.
Benjamin Gummery
A brilliant and idealistic soul sacrificed at the altar of Barack Obama's war on intellectual and political transparency. Jan 22, 2015 | Full Review…
A brilliant and idealistic soul sacrificed at the altar of Barack Obama's war on intellectual and political transparency.
Louis Proyect
Passionately tells a tragic tale of injustice. Nov 26, 2014 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Passionately tells a tragic tale of injustice.
Dennis Schwartz
I was hesitant about seeing this movie. I thought it was just another film glamorizing suicidal people. It turns out to be more of a celebration of the short, but incredibly productive life of Aron Swartz and the things he stood for. Nov 12, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…
I was hesitant about seeing this movie. I thought it was just another film glamorizing suicidal people. It turns out to be more of a celebration of the short, but incredibly productive life of Aron Swartz and the things he stood for.
Robert Roten
Knappenberger argues that the case against Swartz was overzealously pursued in order to make an example of him and on the evidence presented here it's hard to disagree. Aug 31, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Knappenberger argues that the case against Swartz was overzealously pursued in order to make an example of him and on the evidence presented here it's hard to disagree.
Mark Kermode
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