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

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

| May 17, 2021

It's unsavoury viewing - flies on the wall are rarely attracted by the sweet smell of roses after all - but it's queasily fascinating nonetheless.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2019

What emerges from Klayman's film is how very important Brexit Britain is as a self-vivisecting research animal in Bannon's experimental thinking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2019

Klayman is not sympathetic to Bannon. That is obvious. But by slavishly following him from one meeting to another she has not only made a fairly dull and repetitive film, but is also serving the ideological machine and feeding the beast.

| Jul 11, 2019

It's not a film that's going to change minds, and it has been produced to be consumed by Bannon's enemies rather than his friends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2019

While [Alison] Klayman is clearly no fan, she rarely challenges [Steve] Bannon on camera, possibly realising it's a waste of time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2019

This is, at best, morally slippery film-making.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2019

Aside from Bannon's own weird magnetism - it's fascinating to see the way he attracts some as strongly as he repulses others - there isn't much reason why this isn't a magazine article instead of a movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 12, 2019

With Klayman using the man's own words against him, Bannon comes off as a wallower in the mire.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2019

The moral of the film might very well be this: Beware of affable nationalists in rumpled shirts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2019

If the barest elements of political psychology and social pathology are suggested in the course of the film, they're undercut and banalized by the movie's homogenized aesthetic...

| Apr 5, 2019

Where The Brink is chilling is when he [Klayman] is surrounded by his fellow travelers - the oligarchs, plutocrats, and fascists who stand to gain from him, the racists and dim bulbs who lap up his every word.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2019

"The Brink" shows a salesman tirelessly peddling poison door to door and knowing it's only a matter of time before someone lets him in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2019

They say victory has a hundred fathers, but Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign seems to have mostly drunk uncles.

| Mar 29, 2019

It's recommendable in the same way that a doctor recommends regular colonoscopies - you're better off suffering through the discomfort because the alternative is far worse.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2019

[An] accomplished, absorbing film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2019

What "The Brink" does best is show the missionary zeal that sustains this eccentric warrior.

| Mar 28, 2019

Whether you love or loathe the toxic, race-baiting political strategist, chances are you'll walk out as firm in your beliefs as you were going in.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 28, 2019

The Brink isn't just about how close we are to a right-wing revolution; it's about our frightening proximity to outright conflict, courtesy of Bannon and his ilk, who want to "fight the establishment" by stoking mankind's ugliest impulses.

| Mar 28, 2019