Citizen K

Stephen Campbell

2020-01-02

⭐ 6

_**Factually comprehensive but suffers from an over-idealisation of its subject**_ >_I am not hiding and I don't plan to become a political émigré. If it's a choice of forcing me out of the country or putting me in gaol, then they'll have to put me in gaol._ - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (July 3, 2003) As superficially entertaining a show as it was, _Sons of Anarchy_ always had one especially egregious flaw – no matter who opposed the titular biker gang, the show went out of its way to paint them as utterly corrupt and/or amoral, and so compared to them, the bikers (who just so happen to dea…

SWITCH.

2020-03-03

⭐ 8

'Citizen K' makes an interesting companion piece to Herzog's 'Meeting Gorbachev', which captured the promise of 1989 and mourned what came next. Gibney's documentary is essential viewing for anyone needing a history lesson about Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, wants a frontline report on the current geopolitical landscape in Europe - including Ukraine - or just wants to know what it takes to bring down a towering political figure. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-citizen-k-the-rapid-rise-and-thunderous-fall-of-a-russian-oli…

Western propaganda from the pen of a smug self-made man who tries to mitigate his moral failings.