SummaryLaura Poitras, Academy Award winning director of Citizenfour, returns with her most personal and intimate film to date. Filmed over six years, Risk is a complex and volatile character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred ev... Read More
Directed By:Laura Poitras
Written By:Jonathan Oppenheim, Laura Poitras
Risk
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Generally Favorable
72
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Generally Favorable
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
81% Positive
22 Reviews
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15% Mixed
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May 11, 2017
88
There’s no doubt that the world needs more iconoclasts, whistle-blowers and anti-authoritarian rabble-rousers. But it deserves better than Julian Assange.
Jun 28, 2017
80
As a portrait of power gained and lost, of unchecked self-absorption and what drives people like Assange to do what they do, it’s absolutely fascinating. Watching it feels like history unfolding in close-up.
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Generally Favorable
57% Positive
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Sep 25, 2017
10
Lady gaga é a melhor artista pop, compositora, escritora, atriz, feminista que luat todos os dias por um mundo melhor, amamos seus trabalhos que só tema aacrescentar na vida das pessoas.
May 22, 2017
7
What’s most notable about Risk is director Laura Poitras’ incredible access to Assange, at times capturing some of the most pivotal and dramatic moments of the Wikileaks mythos. And yet, it’s as though this insider access clouded Poitras’ judgment when constructing the film, like she was too far inside the boundaries of the landscape to accurately paint its scenery. From purely a storytelling standpoint, the film 'We Steal Secrets’ is a better Wikileaks documentary, which should come as no surprise considering that was written and directed by Alex Gibney, perhaps the best documentarian in the business.
May 21, 2016
80
There is much to appreciate in Poitras’ low-key, down-to-business approach which employs instinctive editing choices, and not her own persona (she never appears onscreen), to build the most revealing portrait of Assange and his WikiLeaks staff in the public domain.
May 10, 2017
75
Debuting at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and updated in light of recent events, it’s a failed film whose failure makes it interesting; it’s less a portrait of Assange than an account of how the scales fell from one admirer’s eyes as she looked at him.
May 4, 2017
70
Timing being everything in life, Risk could hardly be more of the moment.
Aug 11, 2017
60
Director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) charts her own feelings towards her subject, yet unanswered questions abound surrounding WikiLeaks’ alleged connections to Donald Trump’s campaign.
May 14, 2017
7
Assange speaking and philosophizing is the best part of the movie. If you want insight into Assange, his motivations and goals this is a must see movie.
Mar 17, 2018
6
Not a particularly good documentary. While I did not like Citizenfour because of its juvenile take on privacy, I at least saw the immediacy of it, and overall point. This film does not really have a coherent point like that one. As Assange is very cryptic and does a lot of talking, but doesn't actually say very much. It also gets bogged down in the legal issues he faced with sex accusations, and then the relationship between the director and him and the director and even another side **** the film was re-edited and re-released at least once. It was mildly interesting to see Assange **** the film fails to capture any of the impact of CitizenFour, its long, hard to get **** Assange really does not seem to have much of a driving force, or none that he is able, or willing, to decipher. Along with the other **** was just OK. Mildly interesting if you like the subject matter, and worth seeing in that case, but it is not a particularly good documentary otherwise.
Dec 23, 2019
5
Assange is clearly a narcissistic control-freak but the filmmaker acts like a zombified fangirl for most of the documentary.
Production Company:
- Praxis Films Berlin
- Praxis Films
- Field of Vision (II)
- Britdoc Foundation
Release Date:May 5, 2017
Duration:1 h 32 m
Rating:TV-MA
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Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
• 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
