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The Putin Interviews (TV Miniseries)

The Putin Interviews

2017

Oliver Stone

Documentary, Self: Vladimir Putin, Oliver Stone

7.1

436

TV Series. Documentary Granted unprecedented access to both Putin's professional and personal worlds, Oliver Stone, with the help of his longtime documentary producer Fernando Sulichin, interviewed the Russian leader more than a dozen times over the course of two years, most recently in February following the U.S. presidential elections. Since first becoming the president of Russia in 2000, Putin has never before spoken at such length or in such detail to a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"You don't get to know Putin, really, but you get a reasonable glimpse into the mind-set of a man who feels betrayed by decades of U.S. presidents"	POS
United States	Sonia Saraiya Variety	"[It] is a destabilizing documentary that challenges Americans’ narratives about ourselves and asks the viewer to engage in a conversation with a slippery subject. It’s riveting in how dangerous and intimate it feels"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Lawson The Guardian	"It is often said that the most vital aspect of documentary-making is access and, by that measure, Stone’s project is a triumph (...) Stone has done a great service to democracy."	POS
United States	James Poniewozik The New York Times	"'The Putin Interviews' is neither the last or best word on Russia, but it makes a point. Never assume that history is over."	POS
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"While there's value in this attempt to hear from Putin on his terms (...) Stone's idle chitchat and solicitous tone will surely leave many journalists and Putin critics gnashing their teeth."	NEU
United States	Verne Gay Newsday	"Stone humanizes the boogeyman of the 2016 U.S. election in this fascinating, rambling, and sporadically invaluable exercise."	POS
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"Light on revelations, heavy on arrogance (...) In the absence of startling revelations, what's fascinating about this elaborate production is the theater of it all."	NEU
Canada	John Doyle The Globe and Mail	"It was a match made in heaven (...) Those truly revealing moments occur when Putin takes Stone through his version of recent Russian history"	POS
United States	Jenna Scherer Rolling Stone	"A series of softballs lobbed lovingly in the direction of one of the most powerful and dangerous men in the world (...) [Stone] has been granted unprecedented access to Putin, but to what end?"	NEU

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