The information we gather from The Great Hack is on the same level as the stuff in The Big Short, but the presentation here is even more fine tuned for consumption.

| May 15, 2024

We live in a world connected with most of our interactions happening online. It's great but, as this doc shows, it's also terrifying.

| Dec 29, 2021

If you want me to save you roughly two hours, data rights are important and we need to talk about how to categorize them and hold large data companies accountable.

| Original Score: 45/100 | Aug 19, 2021

Great documentaries strike a cord that reverberates back into the world ... If the legal threat dangling over Netflix is any indication of its successful dissemination of truth, then perhaps we are in for a load of trouble.

| Jan 28, 2021

I think the problem about this documentary is that it makes so many different sweeping generalisations.

| Jul 15, 2020

Timely and frightening, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer's The Great Hack explores the furor surrounding Cambridge Analytica and how social media factored into the 2016 presidential election.

| Jun 22, 2020

[A] provocative, buzzy documentary.

| Feb 21, 2020

The Great Hack isn't necessarily an examination of Cambridge Analytica and how it exploited us. It's about once-normal people who are corrupted by the greater evil.

| Jan 17, 2020

The documentary doesn't present much new verified information to feed our hunger for answers, but it does revel in retreading criticisms gone by.

| Dec 6, 2019

This is a scary movie... [And] there's a lot of interesting characters.

| Oct 2, 2019

All of which is sobering, and you would hope it makes viewers think twice about not insisting on better data protections and rights.

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

The Great Hack is an important film, one that people need to see, but its account of the Cambridge Analytica operation scarcely touches the shady world of the billionaire oligarchs who are the real financial and political forces behind the scenes.

| Aug 30, 2019

[The Great Hack] allows us to understand how companies like Cambridge Analytica harvest data through the use of apps. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 30, 2019

I urge all to watch The Great Hack, and beware.

| Aug 8, 2019

The plot is unusually mature for a documentary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 5, 2019

What The Great Hack tells so universal that it's scary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 5, 2019

Individuals profiled are involving guides to some of legal, ethical, social, and individual ramifications on theme: personal data is now a commodity more valuable than oil.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 3, 2019

Just because something's been said a hundred times doesn't make it any less true. The Great Hack is essential viewing because even if you think you've heard it all, you haven't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2019

The Great Hack does occasionally struggle under the weight of its own data load. There is a lot for viewers to process here, and sometimes the torrent of facts and figures flowing from the screen can get overwhelming.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 1, 2019

Now available on Netflix, this new documentary looks at the state of data as a commodity in the modern age, yet does so in an incredibly simple, seemingly disposable manner

| Jul 29, 2019