The result is a fascinating, true-life story of conspiracy and corruption that even John Le Carré might have dismissed as fantastical.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 13, 2024

Navalny makes clear that standing up to Vladimir Putin is both an enormous risk, and a necessity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

This expertly shot film was a nailbiter the first time around, and has taken on a more mournful, elegiac quality...

| Feb 24, 2024

[A] missed opportunity for creating compelling testimony about an authentically dire situation.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 18, 2023

In many ways, Navalny serves as a model for what Amnesty International refers to as "prisoners of conscience" as well as an anti-corruption hero.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2023

Beyond the borderline-profound, right-side-of-history feel of the documentary, Roher is a wily and astute filmmaker.

| Mar 23, 2023

Perhaps Navalny remains unfairly in prison, perhaps Putin is the devil he suggests he is, yet, Daniel Roher's movie is far from proving it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/10 | Mar 14, 2023

Usually only Hollywood screenwriters can conjure up a narrative like the one that Navalny has been living, though, typically in a Bourne-style spy thriller.

| Mar 14, 2023

It is tremendous both in the subject and the craftsmanship with which it has been made.

| Mar 3, 2023

This is fantastic. Essential, urgent, and it couldn't be more relevant.

| Mar 3, 2023

[Navalny] tries to figure out who exactly was involved, leading to one of the most harrowing and thrilling sting operation calls ever recorded on camera. It's also very funny, only if to see the sheer incompetence of those that tried to kill him.

| Feb 17, 2023

Part political portrait, part espionage thriller - containing perhaps the most jaw-dropping phone call in the history of cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 10, 2023

This is not only a moving portrait of a brave opposition leader, but an inside look at the work of effective investigative journalists.

| Original Score: A | Jan 22, 2023

It's the sort of explosive overview that can change minds in a perfect world and the perfect litmus test for exposing sycophants who readily agree with Putin that it's all just an embarrassing cry for attention.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 13, 2023

At once disheartening and inspiring, Navalny is thus a bracing reflection of Russian society and the fraught state of modern democracy at large.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2022

He isn’t flawless, and the film is damning of his realpolitik approach to coalition-building with some scummy far-right politicians, but he’s an inspiring figure for his sheer fearlessness in the face of tryanny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2022

Navalny warns that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

| Original Score: B | Dec 14, 2022

Navalny is nothing if not efficient in its dramatics.

| Dec 14, 2022

Navalny knows the power of a compelling narrative and delivers a call to arms...

| Dec 14, 2022

The fact that it involves one of the most brazen incidents of state sponsored assassination in memory means this is a unique document of a very singular man.

| Dec 14, 2022