A Thousand Cuts

Name: A Thousand Cuts
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 7, 2020
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Maria Ressa, Pia Ranada, Rodrigo R. Duterte

2020

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PBS Distribution | Release Date (Streaming): August 7, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Maria Ressa, Pia Ranada, Rodrigo R. Duterte

Summary: Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy.

Director: Ramona S. Diaz

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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Jessica Kiang

Aug 8, 2020

Ressa’s seemingly boundless energy, good humor and intelligence make her basically a power plant for the manufacture of inspiration in embattled times. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Aug 8, 2020

Diaz stays out of the way of her own lens, instead giving a portrait in context of Ressa's valiant struggle for truth, and her determination to simply do the job even as she becomes part of the story. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Aug 7, 2020

Diaz displays a remarkable skill with editing hours of footage about a complex issue into a tight piece of non-fiction filmmaking that makes its point often merely by bearing witness to history being made in the Philippines. Read full review

John DeFore

Aug 8, 2020

The film is an essential character-driven document of a moment in the history of a country facing some challenges that are disturbingly familiar and others, thank goodness, that Americans will find very foreign. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Aug 8, 2020

The film uses endangered press freedom in the Philippines to illustrate the threat posed to liberal democracy by weaponized social media. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 8, 2020

The movie is loaded with moments meant to generate shock and outrage, but it could use more shoe-leather procedural scenes, showing in detail how Ressa’s team goes about investigating the police’s abuses of their constitutional authority. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Aug 8, 2020

As the film focuses more tightly on [Ressa], it becomes a more gripping document. And it certainly is gripping, as the cloud of menace threatening her becomes firmer. Read full review

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pinkmachismo

Aug 30, 2020

This documentary film could use tighter editing, but the content sends a head-shaking, bone-chilling message about the current state of politics and governance in the Philippines.

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DaCriticalTroll

Dec 8, 2021

Liberal propaganda, Maria Ressa and rappler so biased and so woke, they all wear like clowns

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Rubberfacts

Aug 12, 2020

Extremely subversive propaganda. It exists only to prop up the corporate propaganda news outlets that are eroding democracy through social engineering and manipulation, while claiming it's the other way around.

But at this point I think everyone can see how almost all entertainment has beenExtremely subversive propaganda. It exists only to prop up the corporate propaganda news outlets that are eroding democracy through social engineering and manipulation, while claiming it's the other way around.

But at this point I think everyone can see how almost all entertainment has been weaponized to try and manipulate people into believing certain things.… Expand

2 of 4 users found this helpful22

bif7681

Aug 12, 2020

Gone are the days when news would tell you what happened and you had to make an opinion on it. Now the news tell you their opinion and you have to decide if it even happened at all.

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

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