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  • 2023
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • 1 h 33 m
Reality Winner

Summary The incredible true story of Reality Winner in her own words. Filmed over five years, this is the only documentary about the young NSA whistleblower who exposed Russian interference in U.S. elections and went to jail for it. With exclusive access to Reality Winner and the media outlet involved in her arrest, this film also uncovers FBI e...

  • 2023
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • 1 h 33 m

Reality Winner

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary The incredible true story of Reality Winner in her own words. Filmed over five years, this is the only documentary about the young NSA whistleblower who exposed Russian interference in U.S. elections and went to jail for it. With exclusive access to Reality Winner and the media outlet involved in her arrest, this film also uncovers FBI e...

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
57% Positive
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
14% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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29% Mixed
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14% Negative
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80
Oct 11, 2023
Kennebeck’s documentary offers a more sympathetic, thought-provoking version of what motivated Winner’s actions and the morality of whistleblowing.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 11, 2023
United States vs. Reality Winner is less expose than repudiation of a system that lacks the humanity to address the subtleties of her case.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 11, 2023
Following the events that led up to Winner’s arrest––including recordings of conversations between Winner and agents who stopped by for a friendly chat, along with the efforts of her loving family to advocate on her behalf–– Kennebeck again has crafted an often riveting exploration of the state of national security.
By John Fink FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 11, 2023
It’s an involving, empathetic if one-sided portrait.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 13, 2023
The film is clear in showing how the media put her into boxes: a traitor, a terrorist, a progressive, an innocent, a lost cause. But who is Reality Winner? This documentary doesn’t dig deeper than her patently well-meaning exterior.
By Natalia Winkelman FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 11, 2023
That the documentary United States vs. Reality Winner achieves its primary goals makes it a fairly successful film. That it achieves those goals while relying tediously on almost all of the genre’s most overused formal devices, offering shockingly little variation from countless other docs you’ve seen on similar subjects, makes it a so-so film.
By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW
0
Oct 11, 2023
This review isn’t to say Winner is a “good or bad” person or that her actions were “good or bad.” This review is to say that the movie about Winner and her case is bad.c
By Matt Goldberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Codebreaker Films, XTR
Release Date Oct 11, 2023
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website https://www.codebreakerfilms.com/reality-winner
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination

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