Ted K

Name: Ted K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Crime
Released: February 18, 2022
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Amber Rose Mason, Andrew Senn, Bob Jennings, Brooke Hoover, Daniel Knight

2022

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Super LTD | Release Date: February 18, 2022 | R

Starring: Amber Rose Mason, Andrew Senn, Bob Jennings, Brooke Hoover, Daniel Knight, David Ward, Drew Powell, Kate Scott, Lois Keister, Megan Folsom, Mikal Delaney, Nicole Nelch, Sal Rendino, Samantha Jones, Sharlto Copley, Tahmus Rounds, Teresa Garland, Travis W Bruyer, Wayne Pyle

Summary: From the mind of director Tony Stone comes TED K — a bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As the outside world encroached on his mountain sanctuary, he slowlyFrom the mind of director Tony Stone comes TED K — a bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As the outside world encroached on his mountain sanctuary, he slowly became radicalized with rage. What began with small acts of sabotage, culminated with deadly bomb attacks, national media attention, and the largest manhunt in American history. Actor Sharlto Copley brings a dark intensity and unnerving intimacy to this chilling portrait of America’s most notorious and enigmatic terrorist.… Expand

Director: Tony Stone

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 120 min

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Joe Morgenstern

Feb 23, 2022

An enthralling, even visionary drama that regards its subject with empathy and horror, locates him on the actual piece of land he once owned in Montana and portrays him through a stunning performance by Sharlto Copley, who finds emotional mercury in Kaczynski’s boiling cauldron of rage. Read full review

David Rooney

Mar 4, 2021

The requiem-like heaviness of the music at times risks pushing Ted K into overwrought territory, but this remains a haunting vision of vengeful obsession carried out by a criminal who makes some provocative points. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 4, 2021

It is a riveting, dreamlike evocation of this man’s tortured, unhappy life, whose transient successes bring him no pleasure of any kind. Read full review

Robert Abele

Feb 16, 2022

A little of Ted Kaczynski can go a long way — especially at two hours — even as one’s appreciation for Copley’s intensity and cinematographer Nathan Corbin’s artful shotmaking never wanes. But in the well-trod realm of forensic examinations of the notorious, Stone’s considered hike into the life and times of a very American-made extremist does have undeniable power. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 4, 2021

As it stands, Ted K amounts to a fragmented set of moments, many of them quite disturbing, and some them quite sad. But the half-baked quality of the big picture leads to the conclusion that it may be impossible to ever fully comprehend the motivating factors that led to Kaczynski’s fate — and perhaps that’s how it belongs. Read full review

Nadir Samara

Feb 24, 2022

The filmmaking is very strong, but it's Copley’s performance that sells it. Read full review

Jake Cole

Feb 15, 2022

Tony Stone’s avoidance of emotional manipulation in dramatizing Ted Kaczynski’s terror campaign is admirable, but only up to a point. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Feb 24, 2022

The Unabomber story is interesting enough, but it could take a simplistic or throwaway approach if the script and direction were poor.

Fortunately that is not the case with Ted K, which may not be anything spectacular, but it is supported by good directorial work and of course the excellentThe Unabomber story is interesting enough, but it could take a simplistic or throwaway approach if the script and direction were poor.

Fortunately that is not the case with Ted K, which may not be anything spectacular, but it is supported by good directorial work and of course the excellent and committed performance of Sharlto Copley, which I believe without hesitation to be the best performance of his entire career.… Expand

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TomMonday

Aug 22, 2022

With all the revolutionary material written by Kaczinski himself, it’s disappointing that the movie focusses on Ted as a lonely broke incel – instead of a harbinger of the planet’s current technological and environmental apocalypse who just chose the wrong delivery method for his message.With all the revolutionary material written by Kaczinski himself, it’s disappointing that the movie focusses on Ted as a lonely broke incel – instead of a harbinger of the planet’s current technological and environmental apocalypse who just chose the wrong delivery method for his message. Copley is committed to the part, but it’s a lot of sweating and grunting for a film that has no perspective to tell this story. The narrative chooses monologues and montages, when there are plenty of scenes from Ted K’s actual life which would make great dialogues full of conflict. Lots of ambient music and spectacular nature photography can’t mask the picture’s hollow core. Ironically, it’s that kind of sonorous movie that makes you want to look at your phone.… Expand

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hyunwest123

Mar 18, 2022

Why would you make a film that romanticizes a serial killer like wtf.
tbf i didnt even finish the movie yet but just wanted to start w a bad review cuz i hate the fact that this movie was made.

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