‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Review: Julian Assange WikiLeaks Documentary Is A Bit Broad But Still Uncovers Urgent Truths [Cannes]

CANNES – A film about an urgent subject that, while not quite as incisive or focused as one would hope for, still manages to capture a precarious moment in time, Eugene Jarecki’s “The Six Billion Dollar Man” is both about and isn’t about Julian Assange. At least, not in the way you may think.

It is about how he started the site WikiLeaks, brought light to, among many things, the horrifying war crimes that were carried out by the American military with the video Collateral Murder, and ultimately took shelter in the Ecuadorian embassy after everything unraveled.

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