Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Chris Barsanti @ The Playlist
- Excerpt: Raoul Peck’s repeated usage of the author’s words to buttress his own hazily presented view of current events makes this a less rigorous and engaging work than anything about Orwell should be.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I’m too cynical to believe those who need it will watch, let alone have the humility to absorb it and recognize their place within. But it does reinforce what the rest of us know by confirming that our refusal to ignore the truth is the best weapon we have.
- Jacob Oller @ The A.V. Club
- Excerpt: Peck’s piercing nonfiction has previously given voice to the dead (I Am Not Your Negro) and the dismissed (Silver Dollar Road), but now uses one of West’s most acclaimed and quoted novelists to lay bare its persistent sins.
- [New] | Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O muito aguardado documentário de Raoul Peck, em estreia esta semana, é como um prenúncio distópico do mundo em que vivemos. Por isso mesmo é tão valioso conhecer este complexo historial ensaísta sobre o ímpeto totalitário de tantos candidatos a ditadores.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: There is so much color and calamity about Orwell that affected his writing that Peck left out. But he had to focus on his thesis, that Orwell’s warnings about authoritarianism in “1984” and “Animal Farm” have been actualized. Peck contends that the time has finally come – 1984 is now.
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Grande edição, excelente escolha de narração (Damian Lewis) e uma vida deveras singular, de quem começou por ser parte da opressão, até perceber que tinha de fazer algo por um sistema mais justo à escala mundial.
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