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  • 2020
  • PBS Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2020
  • PBS Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy.

Directed By: Ramona S. Diaz

Written By: Ramona S. Diaz

  • 2020
  • PBS Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2020
  • PBS Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m

A Thousand Cuts

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy.

Directed By: Ramona S. Diaz

Written By: Ramona S. Diaz

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90
Aug 8, 2020
Ressa’s seemingly boundless energy, good humor and intelligence make her basically a power plant for the manufacture of inspiration in embattled times.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
89
Aug 8, 2020
Diaz stays out of the way of her own lens, instead giving a portrait in context of Ressa's valiant struggle for truth, and her determination to simply do the job even as she becomes part of the story.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

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pinkmachismo
Aug 30, 2020
This documentary film could use tighter editing, but the content sends a head-shaking, bone-chilling message about the current state of politics and governance in the Philippines.
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DaCriticalTroll
Dec 8, 2021
Liberal propaganda, Maria Ressa and rappler so biased and so woke, they all wear like clowns
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88
Aug 7, 2020
Diaz displays a remarkable skill with editing hours of footage about a complex issue into a tight piece of non-fiction filmmaking that makes its point often merely by bearing witness to history being made in the Philippines.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 8, 2020
The film is an essential character-driven document of a moment in the history of a country facing some challenges that are disturbingly familiar and others, thank goodness, that Americans will find very foreign.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 8, 2020
The film uses endangered press freedom in the Philippines to illustrate the threat posed to liberal democracy by weaponized social media.
By Chris Barsanti FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 8, 2020
The movie is loaded with moments meant to generate shock and outrage, but it could use more shoe-leather procedural scenes, showing in detail how Ressa’s team goes about investigating the police’s abuses of their constitutional authority.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 8, 2020
As the film focuses more tightly on [Ressa], it becomes a more gripping document. And it certainly is gripping, as the cloud of menace threatening her becomes firmer.
By Michael Ordoña FULL REVIEW
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bif7681
Aug 12, 2020
Gone are the days when news would tell you what happened and you had to make an opinion on it. Now the news tell you their opinion and you have to decide if it even happened at all.
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Rubberfacts
Aug 12, 2020
Extremely subversive propaganda. It exists only to prop up the corporate propaganda news outlets that are eroding democracy through social engineering and manipulation, while claiming it's the other way around. But at this point I think everyone can see how almost all entertainment has been weaponized to try and manipulate people into believing certain things.
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Production Company CineDiaz, Concordia Studio, TBD Post
Release Date Aug 7, 2020
Duration 1 h 39 m
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Website http://www.athousandcuts.film/
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Awards

Gawad Urian Awards
• 4 Nominations
Millennium Docs Against Gravity
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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