Be afraid. Be very afraid. This in essence is the message of “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ highly anticipated documentary on Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the National Security Agency’s ravenous ...

Citizenfour is a simplistic tale of Snowden and white hats and black hats, where subtlety and context play little roles and the existence of smoke always indicates fire. About halfway through Laura ...

No documentary in history has ever scored a best picture nomination at the Oscars. Not “Hoop Dreams.” Not “The War Room.” Not “Harlan County, U.S.A.” All the classics of the genre failed to make the ...

The lawsuit filed on behalf of the American people wishes to hold The Weinstein Co., Participant Media and others liable for aiding and abetting Snowden By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large So ...

Backstage producer Mathilde Bonnefoy said “We focused on the person Snowden. We tried with our film to show him, to give him a voice. His motives were pure. He’s a young man who decided to end his ...

Director Laura Poitras' Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you're watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such ...

Almost defiantly avoiding most of the technological gimcrackery we’ve come to expect in advocacy filmmaking, and rushed to completion (though never looking it) in time for its world premiere last ...

Also, Poitras and Snowden should have to pay the government “billions of dollars to achieve restitution” for the damages done by Snowden’s leaks. The plaintiff, Horace Edwards, is a regular guy (as in ...

“I’m not the story,” Edward Snowden insists to his journalist handlers in the absorbing, thrilling “Citizenfour.” Directed with a deft technical touch by Laura Poitras, “Citizenfour” is the ...

She's demanding answers to why she was detained on more than 50 occasions in an FOIA suit against the U.S. government. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Laura Poitras, the award-winning ...