Snowden Documentary CitizenFour a Must-See, Reviewers Say

The story of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is now on the silver screen courtesy of Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras.

Named CitizenFour, the documentary is receiving good reviews.

From the Washington Post: “Whether you think Edward Snowden is a hero or a traitor, you should see the riveting documentary.”

The BBC: “Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’ exciting and newsworthy portrait-of-a-whistleblower documentary, is something all too rare: a movie about a seismic event that seems to take place right at the centre of the earthquake.”

The New York Times says it can be seen either as a “piece of advocacy journalism, a goad to further argument about how security and transparency should be balanced in a democracy, about how governments abuse technology, about how official secrets are kept and exposed” or as “an elegant and intelligent contribution to the flourishing genre of dystopian allegory.”

Rolling Stone calls it a “potent and profound documentary” that while “guilty of sins of omission, marshalls the hard truths and goes easy on the varnish.”

SFGate calls it “absorbing, thrilling.”

Check out the trailer below:

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