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The Fifth Estate
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5083
- IMDb #4252
- Rotten Tomatoes #4518
- Metacritic #3597
- Letterboxd #4598
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4498
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4766
- Metacritic Critics #3475
- Metacritic Audience #3567
- Criticker #3300
- Kinopoisk #3838
- AlloCiné #3887
- Trakt #4234
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 32, highest is Kinopoisk on 66. Critics average 42, everyone else 54.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The film dramatizes the early days of WikiLeaks, focusing on the relationship between its founder, Julian Assange, and his close collaborator, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. It follows their mission to expose the secrets of powerful institutions through radical transparency, culminating in the publication of a massive cache of classified U.S. government documents. Their partnership is strained by the immense pressure and their conflicting ideals about responsibility and power.
Details
- Director
- Bill Condon
- Writer
- Josh Singer
- Based on
- Inside WikiLeaks by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
- Released
- 11 October 2013
- Country
- India, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $28.0M
- Box office
- $8.6M
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