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Synopsis

CITIZEN K is an intimate yet sweeping look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of the enigmatic MikhailKhodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident. Benefitting from the chaos that ensued after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., Khodorkovsky was able to amass a fortune in financing and oil production and became the richest man in Russia. But when he accused the new Putin regime of corruption, Khodorkovsky was arrested, his assets were seized and following a series of show trials, he was sentenced to more than ten-years in prison. Today, as an exile living in London, he continues to speak out against Putin's two-decade stranglehold on power.

Cast

  • Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Leonid Nevzlin
  • Boris Berezovsky
  • Igor Malashenko
  • Anton Drel
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Alexei Navalny
  • Tatyana Lysova
  • Maria Logan

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Metacritic

60
Jan 16, 2020

Although the film has long, engaging stretches, there is something slightly unsatisfying about the whole.

Metacritic review by Ben Kenigsberg
Ben Kenigsberg
The New York Times
80
Dec 19, 2019

In all this, there is an implicit if undeveloped criticism of the way that power and capital are so often the spoils of posturing masculine insecurity.

Metacritic review by Christopher Machell
Christopher Machell
CineVue
80
Oct 10, 2019

[Gibney's] film does present Khodorkovsky in context in a way that I haven’t seen before. He was the oligarch smart enough – and ruthless enough – to do as well or better than anyone in the Yeltsin/Putin free-for-all years, and then his smartness and ruthlessness perhaps gave him a perspective on it all.

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian