Ted K succeeds in giving us an honest portrayal of a psychopathic terrorist, one that is actually conscious that as an audience, we are sometimes too easily caught up in our morbid fascination and mythologizing of psychos.

| Jun 15, 2023

While the movie doesn’t take any leaps to build or excavate its central character, it does offer a procedural look at the gradual ascension of a domestic terrorist.

| Jan 2, 2023

Sharlto Copley gives a fine performance as Ted, particularly showing his anger and frustration. The cinematography, by Nathan Corbin and Ethan Palmer, is impressive. This film was filmed in the location where Ted used to live in Montana.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 13, 2022

It's a riveting look at the radicalization of the man who became the Unabomber. Sharlto Copley is amazing.

| Dec 4, 2022

Kaczynski has been the subject of television series, documentaries and a podcast. None of those, though, has the eerie verisimilitude of Ted K and a tour-de-force title performance like Sharlto Copley’s.

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

Ted K is by no means an easy or enjoyable watch. But oddly compelling, hypnotic and provocative? For sure. It’s definitely not for everyone, though.

| Jun 22, 2022

A great deal of the storytelling manages to tap into an overwhelming claustrophobia that is effective yet can also be oppressive to the point where the material is less impactful.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 8, 2022

A deeply committed performance by Sharlto Copley galvanizes this chilling biopic.

| May 28, 2022

At two hours long, Ted K drags at points but is never held down for long. The filmmaking is very strong, but it's Copleys performance that sells it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2022

Sufficiently clear about impractical relationships and sexual frustration, but is a missed opportunity in everything else.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2022

This movie is as haunting as it is beautiful and altered my perception of who Ted Kaczynski is. The scariest takeaway from this film is not that Ted is a monster but instead that he is just a man and that makes what he did all the more horrifying.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 8, 2022

Casting Copley as Ted Kaczynski is kind of brilliant, and I believe director Tony Stone knows this.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 25, 2022

A frustrating middle ground that doesn't work as a true-crime story or as an insight into one person's madness.

| Original Score: C | Feb 22, 2022

Two full hours is a long time to spend in this particular land-o’-cray-cray, but by and large the film pulls it off.

| Feb 22, 2022

A surprisingly non-exploitative, matter-of-fact approach to a madman with a measured performance by Sharlto Copley makes this the kind of film Joker wishes it could have been.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2022

iTed K/i feels more like a psychological horror exercise than a docudrama, and thats a much-appreciated approach.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2022

Ted K uses Montana's lush, natural beauty to paint a surreal, if plodding picture of a man who saw technology as the bane of human existence

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2022

A slow-burning, quietly engrossing and understated glimpse inside the mind of a madman. Sharlto Copley gives a convincingly moving, transformative performance.

| Original Score: 8.458432/10 | Feb 19, 2022

This deep dive into the mind of a notorious terrorist is handled well, forgoing all the tired, traditional biopic notes and staying focused on the subject and capturing his emotions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2022

A stunning performance by Sharlto Copley... finds emotional mercury in Kaczynski’s boiling cauldron of rage.

| Feb 18, 2022