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The Fifth Estate

You can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself

2013 · 2h 8m · R Drama, Thriller
Directed by Bill Condon

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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.

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35%
Tomatometer
Fresh

As nervy and as excitable as the trade that it depicts.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten

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.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh

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.

Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Fresh

Director Bill Condon delivers an intelligent, dynamic, character-centered drama.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten

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.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

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