[The Brink] gives a unique insight into the very controversial figure...

| Oct 4, 2024

Alison Klayman’s The Brink is better than Morris’s film, which was actively dull on top of being misguided, but whether this second installment of Bannon portraiture should exist at all is a different question.

| Jan 4, 2023

This is not an "easy" documentary to watch, but it is a fascinating reminder of what some influential forces want for the future of our country.

| Oct 27, 2021

The film is a must see, and it cannot be taken lightly - especially in the wake of the recent racist killings in New Zealand.

| Oct 27, 2021

The Brink. I loved Klayman's first feature, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, her bold, verité portrait of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei. She again delivers a powerful expose here...

| Oct 27, 2021

Bannon wasn't able to veto any of the more button-pushing moments Klayman skillfully captures, even if he wanted to.

| Oct 27, 2021

It is an essential document of this moment in politics and history, based on the intimacy of remarkable access and edited with enormous skill.

| Oct 27, 2021

Bannon knows he is the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and if you get too caught up in the tune he's playing, I'm pretty sure he believes you deserve whatever's coming to you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Most woundingly, Klayman shows Bannon bested by journalists and bombing with audiences...

| May 17, 2021

Though the damage he has done in his time on Trump's team will take years to undo, but The Brink is a solid work by a rising doc filmmaker.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

[A] scary but insidiously entertaining portrait of former Trump campaign architect Steve Bannon.

| May 29, 2020

The resulting portrait is deeply confused, stuck between the idea of Bannon as the Great Manipulator and Bannon as just another hateful fascist agitator.

| Feb 25, 2020

With great pacing, shot selection, and storytelling mojo, Klayman delivers her political animal as chilling circus act - what could become the greatest showdown on earth, were Bannon to have his way.

| Feb 11, 2020

There are no explicit wrongdoings on display, and while The Brink has a droll sense of humor at times, there's a pity in how it trudges through its subject's amorality.

| Jan 17, 2020

Editing is the best tool that [Alison] Klayman has at her disposal. Led by Brian Goetz, it draws out common themes and strands from the vast web of footage she accumulated.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 8, 2019

What's in this movie is very, very damning stuff.

| Oct 3, 2019

This is fascinating and horrifying at the same time. It leaves you kind of feeling sick.

| Sep 24, 2019

A solid but unremarkable documentary that could have pushed back harder with some commentary from the director, Klayman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2019

While The Brink highlights Steve's hypocrisy and thinly veiled racism early on, what shows [director Alison] Klayman's restraint and talents as a filmmaker, is also the balance she gives.

| Jul 19, 2019

The whole affair is as intriguing as it is blood curdling, but the longer the viewer stares, the more difficult it becomes to take it all in as a spectator.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2019