Alex Gibney moves into an elite class of filmmakers with this timely tale of tormented whistleblowers.

| Jun 19, 2020

[A] most compelling documentaries focused directly on the issues of intellectual property rights and definitions of privacy and secrecy in the digital age.

| Aug 28, 2019

We Steal Secrets is a surprisingly even-handed look at a controversy with more than its share of fanatics on both sides.

| Nov 21, 2018

Comprehensive, eloquent and provocative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

The film has access to some fascinating expert witnesses and commentators.

| Jan 3, 2018

We're left instead with an impression as imperfect as the world Bradley Manning tried-and perhaps ultimately failed-to change.

| Oct 21, 2017

We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks is a great documentary, not perfect by any means, but shocking and informative -- and sometimes you can't ask for too much more than that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2017

We Steal Secrets is more earnest than exciting.

| Feb 28, 2016

Gibney does a good job surveying the history of WikiLeaks, but unfortunately, there is little left to say.

| Jan 22, 2014

It isn't propaganda, it's journalism. This is a very controversial film among Assange's followers because it shows Assange to be less than the Messiah they think he is. This provides an exit from news echo chambers.

| Original Score: A | Jan 1, 2014

A subtle trashing of Wikileaks by someone echoing the outlook of the NYT and the Guardian--anxious to make a buck off of the leaks but anxious to preserve the status quo.

| Oct 24, 2013

Words on the screen, their power to free you, and also entrap you - if this isn't the internet's deadly blessing, what is?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2013

The film creates an astonishing picture of the complex new world of internet communications, intelligence and the ever-expanding web of post-cold war secrecy.

| Jul 14, 2013

Having recently released documentaries on clerical abuse, Mario Cuomo, Park Avenue, Lance Armstrong and, now, WikiLeaks, Gibney seems in danger of becoming an actualité machine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2013

Outstanding, cool-headed documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2013

Compelling, enlightening and utterly accessible, Gibney's ultra-slick pop-doc cleaves through the thorniest thicket of contemporary political issues to find, at its heart, two wholly human stories.

| Jul 12, 2013

A breathless, dazzling and mind-blowingly complex 130-minute story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2013

I'd have liked to know more about his private life and background but Gibney has too much other ground to cover.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2013

We Steal Secrets is much concerned with conspiracy theories and may well wind up fuelling new ones.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2013

A thorough and decently intentioned work, though it accepts a little too glibly the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger line against Assange: that he is a fascinating radical who simply became a paranoid authoritarian.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2013