The Fifth Estate
Dir: Bill Condon
2013
**
Everything you need or want to know about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is documented thoroughly in Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. If you want to know half of the story, complete with distracting special effects, unhelpful analogies and dodgy wigs then you should watch Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate. Benedict Cumberbatch proves he's not infallible (although no one noticed) and Daniel Brühl shows he's one of the best actors working today (again, no one seems to have noticed). It was interesting to see more from the Guardian's perspective but key people are left out of the story and key moments are ignored altogether. I do not think it is necessary to watch both films so i would recommend We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks only. Shame though, as the supporting cast of Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis and Peter Capaldi is great.