- Starring: Brandon Darby, Scott Crow
- Summary: Informant examines Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been both vilified and deified, but never entirely understood.
- Director: Jamie Meltzer
- Genre(s): Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 10
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Mixed: 4 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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90The force of Darby's personality -- a rich stew of righteousness, arrogance and self-delusion -- gives the doc a psychological appeal independent of politics.
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90Informant is riveting as it slowly assembles a damning profile of its subject. It's also timely.
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80Among other things, this powerfully confused man is a study in American extremity.
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70[An] evenhanded and carefully crafted documentary.
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60What emerges is a vague, often chilling impression of an unpredictable opportunist and provocateur who may not even be sure himself.
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60Mr. Meltzer doesn’t quite find an effective tone or structure to stay on top of his unsettling person of interest.
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Sep 11, 201358Meanwhile, there’s a potentially fascinating theme imbedded in Darby’s story that goes largely unexplored: the idea that modern protest is little more than theater, and that the participants on both sides are just actors playing roles.
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