‘the Dissident’: Film Review

Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Fri, 01/24/2020 - 7:37pm

It’s become common, if not cliché, for a critic reviewing a documentary about a turbulent real-world event to write something like, “It exerts the power of a true-life thriller!” Well, make no mistake: “The Dissident” does. Directed by Bryan Fogel, who in 2017 made the Oscar-winning “Icarus” (about the Russian doping of Olympic athletes), the […]

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    Rated: 4/5 • Mar 1, 2022. Rated: 3.5/4 • Feb 17, 2022. When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and ...
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    The Dissident. In October 2018, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered his country's embassy in Turkey to pick up some paperwork for his upcoming wedding, and never came out. It would eventually come to light that he was tortured, killed, and dismembered, reportedly by the order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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