SummaryThe Young Turks, one of the most popular online news shows in the world, has amassed a YouTube network of millions of subscribers and billions of views. But that wasn’t always the case. Mad As Hell documents the tumultuous, at times hilarious and altogether astonishing trajectory of Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks’ main host and founder, as he traver... Read More
Directed By:Andrew Napier
Written By:Andrew Napier
Mad As Hell
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52
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4.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
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44% Positive
4 Reviews
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44% Mixed
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11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Feb 6, 2015
75
Nowhere in the film is its subject, Cenk Uygur, the founder and main mouthpiece of a YouTube show titled The Young Turks (TYT), called a journalist, but he does function as such, even if his game is commenting on the news rather than doing reportorial spadework.
Feb 5, 2015
70
Unexpectedly, the film best serves as a cautionary anecdote that epitomizes the mutual apprehension between Internet-age start-ups and establishment media.
Feb 3, 2015
63
The doc is too enamored with Cenk Uygur and his convictions that it hews more closely to being a conventional and one-sided biographical portrait.
Feb 3, 2015
50
There’s a promotional bent to Mad As Hell that whiffs more of branding than rigorous documentary filmmaking.
Feb 5, 2015
40
It comes across less like an actual documentary you would show to a curious audience than a good-job-everyone piece of internal documentation you’d screen at a company party or to potential outside investors.
Feb 3, 2015
30
If Napier hadn't shown up with a camera, Uygur would likely have continued filming himself, because his "firebrand" commentary is only ostensibly about politics; it's mostly about projecting the world onto his own ego and making it Cenk Uygur–shaped.
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4.1
43% Positive
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57% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Feb 11, 2015
9
Someone not familiar with TYT could think the documentary is about Uygur's big ego. Although the focus is clearly on him, most importantly this movie is very "honest". A little more on the TYT crew and their everyday life would have been great in my opinion. But all in all a very worthwile documentary worth every penny.
Dec 7, 2022
0
Ana Kasparian is a cop-fellating simp. She is the screeching headmaster of America's HOA.
Production Company:
- Wrecking Crew
Release Date:Feb 6, 2015
Duration:1 h 20 m
Tagline:Meda. Politics. Rage. The story of The Young Turks.
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Awards
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Northeast Film Festival, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
