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2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
2 h 6 m

2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
2 h 6 m

Summary Citizen K is an intimate yet sweeping look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of the enigmatic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident. Benefitting from the chaos that followed the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., Khodorkovsky was able to amass a fortune in financing and oil production and became the riches...

Documentary

Directed By: Alex Gibney

Written By: Alex Gibney

2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
2 h 6 m

2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
2 h 6 m

Citizen K

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews

76

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings

6.5

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Summary Citizen K is an intimate yet sweeping look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of the enigmatic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident. Benefitting from the chaos that followed the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., Khodorkovsky was able to amass a fortune in financing and oil production and became the riches...

Documentary

Directed By: Alex Gibney

Written By: Alex Gibney

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews

89% Positive
17 Reviews

11% Mixed
2 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews

89% Positive
17 Reviews

11% Mixed
2 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

All Reviews
Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle

Jan 22, 2020

That’s a strength in this documentary. It becomes clear that it’ll take a strongman to bring down a strongman, at least in this case.

By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW

Nov 22, 2019

It’s an undeniably informative and vital documentary, which clearly illustrates a disturbing political farce that has been allowed to thrive for far too long. Which is to say, at all. Where Citizen K falls short is its depiction of Khodorkovsky, whose early indiscretions are breezed over as quickly as possible in order to get to his redemption.

By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Nov 21, 2019

Citizen K uses Khodorkovsky’s story as a way to guide us through the thickets of modern Russian history, a tangled, through-the-looking-glass world that the film surveys from the days of Boris Yeltsin in 1991 to today’s increasingly autocratic reign of Vladimir Putin

By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Oct 26, 2019

While there are a lot of names, facts and intriguing assertions to absorb here, Gibney and editor Michael Palmer weave the dense narrative into a brisk, gripping and fascinatingly detailed thriller, enhanced by Robert Logan and Ivor Guest's suspenseful score.

By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

Feb 6, 2020

A solid, if not revelatory portrait of contemporary Russia through the story of exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW

Jan 15, 2020

Citizen K, Alex Gibney’s surprisingly strong documentary on the rise and fall and rebranding of Khodorkovsky, does a good job of charting the contours of this controversial figure’s story; that the filmmaker was able to get the subject himself to tell so much of it in his own words feels like a coup.

By David Fear FULL REVIEW

The Observer (UK)

Dec 23, 2019

Gibney struggles to psychologically penetrate his cold antihero.

By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW

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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings

60% Positive
6 Ratings

10% Mixed
1 Rating

30% Negative
3 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings

60% Positive
6 Ratings

10% Mixed
1 Rating

30% Negative
3 Ratings

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Details

Production Company Jigsaw Productions, Passion Pictures, Storyteller Productions

Release Date Nov 22, 2019

Duration 2 h 6 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Documentary

Tagline Oligarch. Prisoner. Dissident.

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

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Awards

Warsaw International Film Festival

• 2 Nominations

Philadelphia Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Satellite Awards

• 1 Nomination

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