As nervy and as excitable as the trade that it depicts.
The Fifth Estate
You can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself
2013 · 2h 8m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Bill Condon
Overview
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Director and cast
- Bill Condon Director
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange
- Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg
- Anthony Mackie as Sam Coulson
- Alicia Vikander as Anke Domscheit
- David Thewlis as Nick Davies
- Dan Stevens as Ian Katz
- Stanley Tucci as James Boswell
- Laura Linney as Sarah Shaw
- Carice van Houten as Birgitta Jonsdottir
- Peter Capaldi Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The material covered in the production's 128 minutes is not only inherently non-cinematic but not remotely "thrilling," at least in the conventional sense.
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.
Director Bill Condon delivers an intelligent, dynamic, character-centered drama.
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.
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