A Thousand Cuts
PBS Distribution | Release Date (Streaming): August 7, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
VarietyJessica KiangAug 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
89
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 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
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 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
80
Film ThreatNorman GidneyAug 8, 2020
While it would be impossible to end A Thousand Cuts on a positive note, Diaz holds fast on her subject and Ressa’s determination to fight for what she believes in. This lights a path towards hope and the belief that truth and justice will ultimately prevail in a climate where lies spread faster than facts. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 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
75
Slant MagazineChris BarsantiAug 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
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayAug 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
70
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaAug 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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