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Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press

2017

Brian Knappenberger

Documentary, Self: Hulk Hogan

5.7

291

Documentary The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press, and raised important questions about how big money can silence media. This film is an examination of the perils and duties of the free press in an age of inequality.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A stimulating and valuable but structurally challenged look at the danger the super-rich pose to a free press (...) 'Nobody Speak' might work better as a miniseries than a feature."	NEU
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"A cinematic exposé so bombastic that it poorly serves its own cause"	NEG
United States	Serena Donadoni Village Voice	"[Knappenberger] methodically presents all the players who would collide in that Florida courtroom (...) [There is] only the simple plea for Americans to resolutely support journalism, in both principle and practice."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This documentary is an invigorating, disturbing portrait of the arrogance and sinister self-importance of rich people (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sean O'Neal AV Club	"Knappenberger does a good job of addressing the absurdity of this situation (...) What 'Nobody Speak' should remind us is that all journalism deserves protection from tyrants"	POS
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"A film about the vital importance of speaking truth to power needn’t be so concerned with dressing up its own frightful truths, but 'Nobody Speak' still compels as an opening statement on journalism’s dubious future."	NEU
United States	Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times	"'Nobody Speak' drifts at times and lacks sweep and historical perspective. But it is a troubling foreshadowing of things to come if journalists are threatened, sidelined or attacked by powerful institutions"	NEU
United States	Eric Killelea Rolling Stone	"The movie doesn't rest on the Bollea v. Gawker trial but, rather, it unravels the idea that journalism is being attacked from every side"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"This absorbing if ungainly film meticulously lays out the facts of Hogan’s case (...) A chilling, essential primer in how we got here and where we’re going if bread and circuses continue to win the news cycle"	POS

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