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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post — though ...

Directed By: Alison Klayman

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m

The Brink

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Summary When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post — though ...

Directed By: Alison Klayman

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
71
84% Positive
21 Reviews
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
71
84% Positive
21 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Jul 12, 2019
The film is a compelling, concerning artefact which shows demagoguery in action, without coming across as heavy-handed.
By Tom Duggins FULL REVIEW
87
Feb 1, 2019
Klayman, an increasingly skilled observer as a documentarian, occasionally succumbs to her own curiosity, or maybe incredulity, to ask him a question about these comments, or positions, but mostly, her quiet, unobtrusive gaze exposes his flaws without requiring interjection.
By Todd Gilchrist FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 11, 2019
Sure, the film’s a bit of a hit job. But hey, as Bannon himself tells us, “There’s no bad media.” Sadly, he’s probably right.
By Brad Wheeler FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 25, 2019
The award-winning filmmaker is a one-woman crew on the project, and Klayman’s tenacious fly on the wall, verité approach illuminates the cynical limitations of Bannon’s cruel human worldview through day-to-day contradictions, far more than an interview-style documentary where such a figure is given a platform to talk in circles ever possibly could.
By Andrew Bundy FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 28, 2019
What The Brink does best is show the missionary zeal that sustains this eccentric warrior — “this gross-looking Jabba the Hutt drunk” is how he says he was perceived during the 2016 campaign. The film lets him speak for himself, which he does with wry charm, combative zest, scary certainty, unquenchable energy that can’t be explained by all the Red Bulls he gulps, and an ego undiminished by adversity.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 12, 2019
Perhaps its going to take two documentaries to plumb the depths of Bannon’s persona, what drives this frump who rails against elites even as he’s serving their purposes so well. Klayman’s has an incomplete yet polished feel to it. There’s too much we don’t find out.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 1, 2019
This Bannon is a snooze, occasionally making a wry aside but nearly never saying anything unusually smart or new. ... It's hard to see what ordinary viewers at any point on the political spectrum will gain from this particular status report.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company AliKlay Productions, Claverie Films, RYOT Films
Release Date Mar 29, 2019
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline First the White House. Then the world.
Website https://www.facebook.com/TheBrinkFilm/
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Awards

Gasparilla International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Docville
• 1 Nomination

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