Tag: Raoul Peck
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Makes Obama’s 2025 List
– Favorite Films – Barack Obama continued his annual holiday tradition of sharing a list of his favorite films, books, and music of 2025 via his Instagram account. On the list of the former president’s favorite films is Raoul Peck’s critically acclaimed documentary Orwell: 2+2=5, which examines modern totalitarianism and misinformation, with Damian narrating as…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Is One of the Top 5 Documentaries of the Year
– National Board of Review – Since 1909, the National Board of Review (NBR) has dedicated its efforts to the support of cinema as both art and entertainment. Each year, this select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, and academics view over 250 films and participates in illuminating discussions with directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters…
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 Director Raoul Peck Warns America
– “At some point, you’re next in line” – by Denton Davidson | Gold Derby | October 9, 2025 The Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind I Am Not Your Negro brings George Orwell’s words to life in a new documentary that warns against apathy, denial, and the rewriting of truth. When Raoul Peck takes on an author, he’s not just making…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis is Orwell in ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’
– Truth, Power, and How Fragile Democracy Can Be – by Damianista | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | October 7, 2025 “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 Last weekend, I was lucky to attend a screening of ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ at…
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Raoul Peck’s New film on Orwell Warns Us What Comes Next
– Both Familiar and Terrifyingly Current – by Josh Rottenberg | Los Angeles Times | October 7, 2025 No one goes to Cannes expecting to be frightened by a film about a long-dead British writer. Unless, of course, that writer is George Orwell. When Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” premiered at the festival in May, the…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Adds Up Everything Keeping You Awake at Night
– Damian Lewis: Warm Yet Resolute – by Jacob Oller | AV Club | October 3, 2025 Documentarian Raoul Peck cuts into our modern hell, using George Orwell as his scalpel. It’s hard to settle on which modern catastrophe will keep you up at night. Will it be the government cover-ups that lack the self-respect…
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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…