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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenDensely packed with info, incident and philosophy, the film is a guaranteed debate sparker. Its strength lies not just in the filmmaker’s intimate access to his subjects, but in the multiple points of view he engages.
- 80TheWrapSam FragosoTheWrapSam FragosoBy nature of its central subject, it’s a piece of work that infuriates and excites. It’s a deeply upsetting movie, and then, sporadically, a hopeful one.
- 80VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe great strength of The New Radical is that it’s not on its subjects’ side (or totally against them either). It’s the rare documentary that lets you decide.
- 75The Film StageJohn FinkThe Film StageJohn FinkThe New Radical is one of the more illuminating and scary documentaries of recent memory as it takes the time to make rational and disturbing arguments free from commentary.
- 70The New York TimesKen JaworowskiThe New York TimesKen JaworowskiIt’s possible to fully, and vehemently, disagree with Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taaki yet still see their points. That can make The New Radical unsettling. It also makes it a film worth watching.
- 60Village VoiceDaphne HowlandVillage VoiceDaphne HowlandIt’s hard to know whether it’s intentional that The New Radical, Adam Bhala Lough’s slick documentary about “techno-anarchist” Cody Wilson, famous for developing a 3-D-printable plastic gun, presents its subject as a shallow pseudo-intellectual man-child.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshUltimately, it feels irresponsible to remain unwilling to take a stand on this extreme abstract rhetoric in support of an all too real and immediate threat.
- 50RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe movie also falls back on a lot of boogity-boogity docu-clichés. Skittery editing, ironic music cues, that sort of thing.