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Citizenfour
Directed by
Laura Poitras
R
2014
1h 53m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
8.0
96%
87%
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A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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Cast of Citizenfour
Edward Snowden
Self
Glenn Greenwald
Self
Laura Poitras
Self
William Binney
Self
Barack Obama
Self
Jacob Appelbaum
Self
Julian Assange
Self
Jeremy Scahill
Self
Kevin Bankston
Self
Ewen MacAskill
Self
Lindsay Mills
Self
Citizenfour Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
February 13, 2025
Man talks about his work from a bedroom and gets into a spot of bother.....It's fascinating. Recommended
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
This thoughtful film is designed with taste.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Citizenfour plays like a thriller as it chronicles a complex and vitally important chapter in our history.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The message of the movie is as clear as Siberian ice: Whether you're a Tea Partier, an Occupier or just an ordinary Joe, you might be the next citizen who's stranded in limbo.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Alarming in the best sense of the word.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
This is a complicated story, but it's efficiently laid out by Poitras in this smartly edited project.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
If you think Snowden is a traitor, you should probably see it. If you think he's a hero, you should probably see it. If you haven't made up your mind - well, you get the idea.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Citizenfour is obviously in Snowden's corner, but as an example of pure cinema vrit, this is the finest - and most disturbing - political documentary since Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
The scariest thing you'll see this Halloween is Edward Snowden swearing in disbelief at the end of Laura Poitras' gripping, disturbing documentary.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Poitras' movie works even better as a horror picture -- perfect for Halloween week.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Without too much knowledge or preconceived ideas, it would make me an easy mark for a polemic about modern privacy -- but Poitras's bracing, galvanizing new documentary about the Snowden affair isn't that at all.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This isn't just a documentary -- this is history.
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Leonard Maltin
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A first-hand, up-close account of Snowden that allows us to meet and judge the man for ourselves.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
As we watch the T-shirted Snowden, sitting on his messy hotel bed with his little laptop, set the stage for what is to come, the vast disjunction between these mundane surroundings and his imminent, world-shattering revelations is almost comical.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
It's hard to overstate the film's achievement.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The film works, whatever your ethical stance on Snowden, because it's more procedural than polemic.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Snowden has been called a traitor, but here he comes off as a decent man trying to do the right thing, if however awkwardly (or illegally).
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Laura Poitras may be guilty of taking Snowden at face value, but she succeeds brilliantly in evoking a shadow villain intent on world domination. Big Brother is back, baby, and he's gone digital.
Deadspin
Tim Grierson
It's so rare to see history documented as it's happening, and "Citizenfour" succeeds in humanizing the participants without diminishing the stakes of their endeavor.
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