The Cleaners

Name: The Cleaners
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 23, 2018
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Abdulwahab Tahhan, Antonio García Martínez, David Kaye, Donald Trump, Ed Lingao

2018

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| Release Date: November 23, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Abdulwahab Tahhan, Antonio García Martínez, David Kaye, Donald Trump, Ed Lingao, Illma Gore, Khaled Barakeh, Mark Zuckerberg, Mocha Uson, Nicole Wong, Sarah T. Roberts

Summary: When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn't like - violence, pornography and - political content. Who is controlling what we see and what we think?

Director: Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Jim Slotek

Nov 21, 2018

The Cleaners is a doc of remarkable access and a feast for thought. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 21, 2018

The Cleaners makes clear how when it comes to the Internet, the more private corporations decide what we all get to “like,” the worse off we’re all going to be. Read full review

Simon Houpt

Nov 21, 2018

When this brisk, disquieting doc debuted at Sundance, these censorship farms were largely secret, but Facebook has started to bow to public pressure and open up some of the process. The troubling questions remain. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Nov 21, 2018

A timely film, capable of sparking vigorous debate. Read full review

The Film Stage Daniel Schindel

Nov 21, 2018

The Cleaners ably raises questions around the issue without following through on tying them together, often seeming like it’s simply bouncing around to cover all the relevant topics until it’s time to wrap up. That’s a letdown, but it gives us some noteworthy moments along its way. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Nov 21, 2018

The Cleaners has the effect of scanning three dozen grim tweets. There’s not much to latch onto besides an overwhelming sense of helplessness; like the internet itself, it’s crowded with opinions but lacking in intimacy. Read full review

Bobby LePire

Nov 21, 2018

Topical resonance is all that the movie musters, as it changes subject matter on a whim and doesn’t give the audience enough background information on the issues or the interviewees to make a whole lot of sense. Read full review

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