Tag: George Orwell
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Review – A Succinct Warning for What’s Already Here
– When Fiction is Fact – by Dan Mecca | The Film Stage | October 3, 2025 “From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned,” George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell: 2+2=5, the new documentary from Raoul Peck, serves as a stark reminder…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Review – The Latest Documentary from Director Raoul Peck
– Powerful, Terrifying, and Unnerving – by Ross Bonaime | Collider | October 3, 2025 8 out of 10 stars At this point, it sometimes feels like a cliché or reductive to say that our modern world is like 1984, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel released in 1949, or to say things have become “Orwellian.” But Orwell: 2…
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George Orwell Documentary Director on What Author Would Make of Today
– I Told You So – by Katie Kilkenny | The Hollywood Reporter | October 3, 2025 In an interview, Raoul Peck explains why he interspersed the writer’s story with footage of current events, including footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters. At a time when so many major Hollywood distributors are avoiding political…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Interview With Filmmaker Raoul Peck
– The Next Best Picture Podcast – by Matt Neglia | Next Best Picture | October 2, 2025 “Orwell: 2+2=5” is a documentary film, directed and produced by Raoul Peck. It follows the life and career of George Orwell, examining how his political observations remain relevant in the present day, particularly the lessons from his…
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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…