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2015
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 20 m

2015
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 20 m

Summary The 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 ...

Directed By: Andrew Napier

Written By: Andrew Napier

2015
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 20 m

2015
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 20 m

Mad As Hell

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews

52

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings

4.1

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Summary The 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 ...

Directed By: Andrew Napier

Written By: Andrew Napier

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews

44% Positive
4 Reviews

44% Mixed
4 Reviews

11% Negative
1 Review

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews

44% Positive
4 Reviews

44% Mixed
4 Reviews

11% Negative
1 Review

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Feb 6, 2015

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.

By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Feb 5, 2015

Unexpectedly, the film best serves as a cautionary anecdote that epitomizes the mutual apprehension between Internet-age start-ups and establishment media.

By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW

Feb 3, 2015

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.

By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Feb 5, 2015

Mad as Hell is far too subjective to take seriously.

By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

Feb 3, 2015

There’s a promotional bent to Mad As Hell that whiffs more of branding than rigorous documentary filmmaking.

By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW

Feb 5, 2015

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.

By James Rocchi FULL REVIEW

Feb 3, 2015

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.

By Chris Packham FULL REVIEW

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User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings

43% Positive
3 Ratings

0% Mixed
0 Ratings

57% Negative
4 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings

43% Positive
3 Ratings

0% Mixed
0 Ratings

57% Negative
4 Ratings

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Details

Production Company Wrecking Crew

Release Date Feb 6, 2015

Duration 1 h 20 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Tagline Meda. Politics. Rage. The story of The Young Turks.

Website https://www.facebook.com/MadAsHellFilm

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Awards

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Northeast Film Festival, US

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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