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- 2013
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- 2013
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Summary Award-winning documentary director Alex Gibney turns his camera on WikiLeaks, its founder, Julian Assange, and the global debate over access to information.
- 2013
- R
- Focus World
- 2 h 10 m
- 2013
- R
- Focus World
- 2 h 10 m
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
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Summary Award-winning documentary director Alex Gibney turns his camera on WikiLeaks, its founder, Julian Assange, and the global debate over access to information.
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Generally Favorable
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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15 Reviews
25% Mixed
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The vastly divergent paths of Assange and Manning make up the most fascinating aspects of this relentlessly compelling film.
Make no mistake, "We Steal Secrets" is a sprawling, ambitious, major work — a gripping exploration of power, personality, technology and the crushing weight that can come to bear on those who find themselves in its combined path.
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There are no shattering revelations here – if Gibney’s canny gathering of various narratives, shimmering score and cool graphics give his film the goose-pimply intrigue of a spy thriller, it just happens to be one you’ve already seen. It’s also one in which the subplot, if anything, takes over from the main plot.
By the time this twisty, probing, altogether enthralling movie hits its final notes, the crimes against the Constitution and humanity have been upstaged by personal demons. Which is our woe as well.
Despite Gibney’s best efforts to put a halo on Manning, the enormity of what the soldier did towers over what has been done to him.
Gibney, a prolific and skilled documentarian, marshals and organizes a raft of information as deftly as anyone could wish. But his conclusions are murkier than they might be.
Production Company
Jigsaw Productions,
Global Produce,
Universal Pictures
Release Date May 24, 2013
Duration 2 h 10 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The truth has consequences.
Awards
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
PGA Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
FOCAL International Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination