The New Radical
The Orchard | Release Date: December 1, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenOct 31, 2017
Densely packed with info, incident and philosophy, the film is a guaranteed debate sparker. Its strength lies not just in the filmmaker’s intimate access to his subjects, but in the multiple points of view he engages. Read full review
80
TheWrapSam FragosoOct 31, 2017
By nature of its central subject, it’s a piece of work that infuriates and excites. It’s a deeply upsetting movie, and then, sporadically, a hopeful one. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 31, 2017
The great strength of The New Radical is that it’s not on its subjects’ side (or totally against them either). It’s the rare documentary that lets you decide. Read full review
75
The Film StageJohn FinkOct 31, 2017
The New Radical is one of the more illuminating and scary documentaries of recent memory as it takes the time to make rational and disturbing arguments free from commentary. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnOct 31, 2017
The New Radical magnifies an emerging desire for major changes to the global marketplace and makes a compelling argument for how those sentiments have gained traction. Read full review
70
The New York TimesKen JaworowskiNov 30, 2017
It’s possible to fully, and vehemently, disagree with Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taaki yet still see their points. That can make The New Radical unsettling. It also makes it a film worth watching. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshNov 30, 2017
Ultimately, it feels irresponsible to remain unwilling to take a stand on this extreme abstract rhetoric in support of an all too real and immediate threat. Read full review
60
Village VoiceDaphne HowlandNov 30, 2017
It’s hard to know whether it’s intentional that The New Radical, Adam Bhala Lough’s slick documentary about “techno-anarchist” Cody Wilson, famous for developing a 3-D-printable plastic gun, presents its subject as a shallow pseudo-intellectual man-child. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyDec 1, 2017
The movie also falls back on a lot of boogity-boogity docu-clichés. Skittery editing, ironic music cues, that sort of thing. Read full review
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