Reality Winner

Name: Reality Winner
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 11, 2023
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Betsy Reed, Billie Winner-Davis, Brittany Winner, Edward Snowden, Gary Davis

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Codebreaker Films | Release Date: October 11, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Betsy Reed, Billie Winner-Davis, Brittany Winner, Edward Snowden, Gary Davis, James Risen, John Kiriakou, Keith Golden, Reality Winner, Thomas Drake

Summary: The incredible true story of Reality Winner in her own words. Filmed over five years, this is the only documentary about the young NSA whistleblower who exposed Russian interference in U.S. elections and went to jail for it. With exclusive access to Reality Winner and the media outlet involved in her arrest, this film also uncovers FBIThe incredible true story of Reality Winner in her own words. Filmed over five years, this is the only documentary about the young NSA whistleblower who exposed Russian interference in U.S. elections and went to jail for it. With exclusive access to Reality Winner and the media outlet involved in her arrest, this film also uncovers FBI evidence never before released. Would you risk your freedom to protect democracy?… Expand

Director: Sonia Kennebeck

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Allan Hunter

Oct 11, 2023

Kennebeck’s documentary offers a more sympathetic, thought-provoking version of what motivated Winner’s actions and the morality of whistleblowing. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Oct 11, 2023

Following the events that led up to Winner’s arrest––including recordings of conversations between Winner and agents who stopped by for a friendly chat, along with the efforts of her loving family to advocate on her behalf–– Kennebeck again has crafted an often riveting exploration of the state of national security. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Oct 11, 2023

United States vs. Reality Winner is less expose than repudiation of a system that lacks the humanity to address the subtleties of her case. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 11, 2023

It’s an involving, empathetic if one-sided portrait. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Oct 13, 2023

The film is clear in showing how the media put her into boxes: a traitor, a terrorist, a progressive, an innocent, a lost cause. But who is Reality Winner? This documentary doesn’t dig deeper than her patently well-meaning exterior. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Oct 11, 2023

That the documentary United States vs. Reality Winner achieves its primary goals makes it a fairly successful film. That it achieves those goals while relying tediously on almost all of the genre’s most overused formal devices, offering shockingly little variation from countless other docs you’ve seen on similar subjects, makes it a so-so film. Read full review

Collider Matt Goldberg

Oct 11, 2023

This review isn’t to say Winner is a “good or bad” person or that her actions were “good or bad.” This review is to say that the movie about Winner and her case is bad.c Read full review

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