Category: Orwell: 2+2-5
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Review – How George Came to See the World as Orwellian
– Critic’s Pick – by Manohla Dargis | New York Times | October 2, 2025 His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life. “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” George Orwell…
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How Did a Documentary on George Orwell Become the Scariest Movie of 2025?
– Counteract Complicity – by David Fear | Rolling Stone Magazine | October 2, 2025 Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 looks at the writer who gave us a modern dystopian classic — and doubles as a portrait of how authoritarianism works that feels way too familiar. When he was 19 years old, still eons away from the essays,…
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Taylor Swift, George Orwell and Dwayne Johnson are in Movie Theaters. Take Your Pick!
– What to Watch – by Bob Mondello | NPR | October 2, 2025 An action star makes his Oscar bid in a skull-cracking biopic, and a pop star makes her album publicity bid with a music video reveal. Elsewhere, cinemas host a trio of triumphant returns — the re-release of an epic fantasy that’s…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 – A Powerful Portrait of Author and His Still Relevant Writings
– 3 Out of 4 Stars – by Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press | October 1, 2025 Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” He’s hardly the first to connect the dots between…
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The 14 Movies to Watch Out for This Fall
– An Incendiary Watch – by Shirley Li | The Atlantic | September 20, 2025 An existential thriller set in the middle of the Moroccan desert, a whodunit doubling as a crisis of faith, a musical about the founder of the Shaker movement—this year’s Toronto International Film Festival not only screened some of this fall’s…
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From Orwell 2+2=5 to Frankenstein: TIFF’s Films on Power, Creation, and Survival Are a Warning
– TIFF Review – by Noel Ransome | Wired | September 14, 2025 These are WIRED’s picks for some of the most urgent and unsettling films from the 50th annual Toronto International Film Festival. Some of the most urgent films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival aren’t here to soothe. Together, Orwell: 2+2=5, Put Your Soul on…
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Review: Orwell 2+2=5
– TIFF Dispatch – by Jason Bailey | Crooked Marquee | September 11, 2025 So few films — even indies, even festival favorites — are willing to take the risk of tinkering with standard storytelling techniques, with the ways in which a movie moves from one scene to another, chronologically and stylistically. I’ve enjoyed every…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 To Be Honored at Albie Awards
– The False Equation – According to Plunge Daily, Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 documentary will be honored at the 6th Annual Albie Awards in New York City on September 24, 2025 for its impact, and after the documentary has made its festival run at Toronto Film Festival and Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville. As…