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The Fifth Estate
Directed by
Bill Condon
R
2013
2h 8m
Drama
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and more
6.2
35%
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A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
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Cast of The Fifth Estate
Benedict Cumberbatch
Julian Assange
Daniel Brühl
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Anthony Mackie
Sam Coulson
David Thewlis
Nick Davies
Alicia Vikander
Anke Domscheit-Berg
Dan Stevens
Ian Katz
Stanley Tucci
James Boswell
Laura Linney
Sarah Shaw
Carice van Houten
Birgitta Jonsdottir
Peter Capaldi
Alan Rusbridger
Moritz Bleibtreu
Marcus
Alexander Beyer
Marcel Rosenbach
Jamie Blackley
Ziggy
Anatole Taubman
Holger Stark
Michael Culkin
Ralph Zilke
Alexander Siddig
Dr. Tarek Haliseh
Michael Kranz
Otto
Axel Milberg
Hans
Philip Bretherton
Bill Keller
Joseph Kinyua Muriuki
John Paul Oulu
Peter King Nzioki
Oscar Kamau Kingara
Lydia Leonard
Alex Lang
Amir Boutrous
Mutassim Al-Gaddafi
Mimi Ferrer
Shida Haliseh
Gudmundur Thorvaldsson
WikiLeaks Staffer #1
Hera Hilmar
Wikileaks Staffer #2
Nigel Whitmey
General Thomason
Camilla Rutherford
Guardian Lawyer
Ludger Pistor
Supervisor
Ben Rook
Julian Assange jeune
Bill Condon
Director
Josh Singer
Writer
Luke Harding
Writer
Daniel Domscheidt-Berg
Writer
David Leigh
Writer
Steve Golin
Producer
Michael Sugar
Producer
The Fifth Estate Ratings & Reviews
Håkon G
August 27, 2025
Found the movie interesting enough, and i do like this kind of movies. As other people has mentioned, cant understand if the movie is for or against Assange. But nevertheless, enjoyable and i think of you do not know much about the story behind Assange and wikileaks this would be a good watch
ARTINFO.com
J. Hoberman
Given its own aggressive attention deficit disorder, The Fifth Estate is the sort of movie that might induce a migraine.
Austin Chronicle
Louis Black
Tthe film finally falls short, an explosive beginning leading to a pedestrian end.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
As nervy and as excitable as the trade that it depicts.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
The bullet points of WikiLeaks' rise and fall are dutifully covered, but the movie bites off more than it can chew...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The Fifth Estate is also as current as a news feed, filling in the disputed facts about Assange's life beyond the headlines and chronicling the revolution that has upended the media landscape in the last decade.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Director Bill Condon delivers an intelligent, dynamic, character-centered drama.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Condon and his screenwriter Josh Singer don't quite know what to make of this duo, perhaps because the men didn't quite know what to make of each other, either.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
"The Fifth Estate" feels unfortunately small and safe.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
A feeble, reactionary drama.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
"The Fifth Estate" tries to be a cross between "The Social Network" and "Zero Dark Thirty." Only it's more like "The Sociopath Network" meets "Zero Dumb Thirty."
Detroit News
Tom Long
It may be a bit chilly, but "The Fifth Estate" is good, scary information well-processed.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The problem with director Bill Condon's fictionalized account of all this is that, like WikiLeaks itself, there's way too much data to sift through.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Like the journalists Assange worked with, it tries to put some shape and perspective on a story that is still too big and too new to frame as a definitive narrative.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
The first narrative film portrait of the white-blond cyber bad boy feels undercooked and overwrought, haphazardly written and overdirected.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The movie can't quite decide what it thinks of [Assange] - or even if it should decide at all.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The movie feels both too soon and too late; an often skillful assemblage of bits and pieces, telling a story we already know and, ultimately, letting it fade away without an ending.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A fairly dull thriller about a hugely influential Internet phenomenon.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Exhausting in a new way, the movie is a data dump devoid of drama.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
An entertaining if inevitably unreliable current events romp.
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