Informant

Name: Informant
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 13, 2013
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Brandon Darby, Scott Crow

2013

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Music Box Films | Release Date: September 13, 2013 | Not Rated

Starring: Brandon Darby, Scott Crow

Summary: Informant examines Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been both vilified and deified, but never entirely understood.

Director: Jamie Meltzer

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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John DeFore

Sep 13, 2013

The force of Darby's personality -- a rich stew of righteousness, arrogance and self-delusion -- gives the doc a psychological appeal independent of politics. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Sep 10, 2013

Informant is riveting as it slowly assembles a damning profile of its subject. It's also timely. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Sep 13, 2013

Among other things, this powerfully confused man is a study in American extremity. Read full review

Kalvin Henely

Sep 10, 2013

It creates a useful distance between Brandon Darby and his stories that allow for us to assess them individually, reinforcing the film's suggestion that the truth is elusive. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

Sep 12, 2013

[An] evenhanded and carefully crafted documentary. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 12, 2013

What emerges is a vague, often chilling impression of an unpredictable opportunist and provocateur who may not even be sure himself. Read full review

Scott MacDonald

Sep 11, 2013

Meanwhile, there’s a potentially fascinating theme imbedded in Darby’s story that goes largely unexplored: the idea that modern protest is little more than theater, and that the participants on both sides are just actors playing roles. Read full review

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