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Citizenfour (2014) - IMDb
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4044364/
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Citizenfour - Wikipedia
Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour
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Citizenfour (2014) - Rotten Tomatoes
In January 2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizenfour
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Citizenfour Movie Review & Film Summary (2014) | Roger Ebert
Though superlatives can mischaracterize any movie’s qualities, it is not an overstatement, I think, to call “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ film about Edward Snowden, the movie of the century (to date).
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/citizenfour-2014
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Intent on Defying an All-Seeing Eye - The New York Times
“Citizenfour,” about Edward J. Snowden’s quest to expose sweeping government surveillance of citizens, has the effect of a spooky and deeply unsettling thriller.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/movies/citizenfour-a-documentary-about-edward-j-snowden.html
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Citizenfour review – Edward Snowden documentary is utterly engrossing | Film | The Guardian
Laura Poitras’s brave documentary follows Edward Snowden as his leaks about the activities of the NSA shock the world, writes Mark Kermode
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/19/citizen-four-review-edward-snowden-nsa-engrossing
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Citizenfour review | Sight & Sound | BFI
Portrait of the whistleblower: Laura Poitras's ground-zero record of Edward Snowden's revelations of national-security creep finds intensity in intimacy, says Nick Bradshaw.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-citizenfour
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‘Citizenfour’ Review: Laura Poitras’ Extraordinary Edward Snowden Docu – Variety
No amount of familiarity with whistleblower Edward Snowden and his shocking revelations of the U.S. government’s wholesale spying on its own citizens can prepare one for the impact of Laura Poitras’ extraordinary documentary “Citizenfour.”
https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-citizenfour-1201327600/
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‘Citizenfour’ Movie Review – Rolling Stone
Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/citizenfour-97531/
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Citizenfour | Metacritic
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the process of constructing a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,”
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/citizenfour
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Why “Citizenfour” Deserved Its Oscar | The New Yorker
What the country still has to work out is whether the Edward Snowden leaks were actually transformative. That’s the question about a good movie, too.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/is-citizenfour-worth-celebrating
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Citizenfour review: 'everybody needs to see it' - Telegraph
This Edward Snowden documentary from Laura Poitras is crackling, necessary viewing that places us in the eye of the storm, says Tim Robey
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11166711/Citizenfour-review-Edward-Snowden.html
