How much of your own life are you willing to risk? Filmmaker Laura Poitras gains unprecedented access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his team for six years.
7 April 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 April 1983, USA
21 June 1983, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
3 July 1971, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
March 21, 1949 in Llubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
13 April 1957, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA
1 January 1940, Greeley, Colorado, USA
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
28 March 1986, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
24 December 1946, Hybart, Alabama, USA
26 October 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 February 1964, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 June 1967, New York City, New York, USA
20 June 1960, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
August 10, 2017
Poitras captures all of this in images that shimmer with clarity and precision. There's something wonderfully clear-eyed about Risk, even as the questions and moods it ignites are murky and unsettling.
May 11, 2017
Interesting if uneven ...
May 11, 2017
"Risk" makes a case that character is stronger than idealism or ideology - that who you are will always trump what you hope to achieve.
June 28, 2017
A jaw-dropping profile of one man's battle with world governments, common decency and his own out-of-control ego.
May 08, 2017
The most salient feature of Risk is how Poitras remains non-judgmental throughout.
July 23, 2017
Despite taking a year to recut the film following its Cannes premiere in 2016, it's not apparent Poitras and co-editor Melody London found 'the film' at all.
July 20, 2017
An intriguing risk reaching for but never quite grasping the rewards it seeks, just like everything it captures
August 03, 2017
Risk brings an odd lack of focus to Poitras's dour exercise, made no more convincing by her flat voice-over interjections.
August 04, 2017
Risk doesn't concern itself overly with the history or role played by WikiLeaks, but rather with the man at the centre.
July 14, 2017
An interesting if rather unfocused documentary by Laura Poitras.
May 12, 2017
There's no doubt that the world needs more iconoclasts, whistle-blowers and anti-authoritarian rabble-rousers. But it deserves better than Julian Assange.
May 08, 2017
We may not get a perfect documentary with Risk, but at least we get a very real and truthful sense of just how hard these kinds of movies are to make.
