- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 15, 2017
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 57 Ratings
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Positive: 26 out of 57
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Mixed: 8 out of 57
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Negative: 23 out of 57
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Dec 19, 2017It will be awhile before I forget the closing monologue from the son who has wasted his life trying to prove that the CIA murdered his father. How very, very sad.
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Jan 14, 2018Conspiracy theory fake documentary about the accumulation of lies and murder that involves CIA all along the Cold War. It´s ressemblance to real life is surprising.
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Wormwood, ultimately, is a wildly overblown embarrassment to Morris' reputation.
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If it were a two-hour film, Wormwood might be a brilliant, uneasy dive into dark CIA history, and its long-term ramifications for family members whose loved ones were sacrificed for the nebulous cause of “national security.” Running twice that long, it loses all energy and dramatic propulsion. Still, Morris makes a persuasive case that there’s sinister stuff to be unraveled here.
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The filmmaking gathers all the bits and pieces of the story together and arranges them in ways that are clever, surprising, and so aggressively (and deliberately) self-conscious that there are times when the whole thing gets close to turning into an intellectualized formal exercise. There are times when you might question whether six hours was necessary to tell this particular story--I often wonder that about Netflix productions--but there’s never a moment where Olson or Morris fail to fascinate.