Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk Documentary Criticized as Lacerating Portrait

Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man

Venice film festival: Alex Gibney interviews former colleagues, wives, the trillionaire’s father and a CG avatar in this absorbing documentary ‘Elon is a nuke.” The speaker is Ashley St Clair, a former conservative Maga influencer and one of Elon Musk’s former girlfriends-slash-baby mommas She is a fascinating expert witness in Alex Gibney’s four-hour epic study of the world’s richest and dullest man: the overgrown brattish South-African-born trillionaire plutocrat, ersatz visionary and Trump...

By Peter Bradshaw in Venice

The first teaser for the Elon Musk documentary that Musk is mad about is here

Musk previously called Alex Gibney's documentary a "hit piece." Alex Wong/Getty Images The teaser for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary is here. It calls the film an "unflinching look at earth's most unchecked man." Musk has previously called the doc a "hit piece" and railed against Gibney on X. The teaser for the new Elon Musk documentary is here — and it ends on an explosive note. Alex Gibney's documentary about Musk premiered this week at the Venice International Film Festival. Around ...

Ashley St. Clair and Alex Gibney on AI and the dangers of Elon Musk

A new documentary about Elon Musk uses an AI avatar to simulate an interview with him, using real quotes

By Lindsey Bahr

‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Definitive Documentary Puts the Pieces of Elon Musk Together — It’s a Lacerating Portrait of Technocratic Brilliance, Power Lust and Crackpot Delusion

What makes "Musk" such a lacerating and important watch, grounded in Alex Gibney’s supremely insightful but user-friendly mastery of the form, is that it takes this flamboyant but in many ways elusive figure, with his tech ambitions and cosmic dreams and malignant megalomania, and puts him all together, letting us see how one chapter of his life led to the next, and how the Musk dream wasn’t always so grandiose.

By Owen Gleiberman

‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Mammoth Elon Musk Doc Is a Poleaxing Portrait of the Tech Titan as a Con Man Given Way Too Much Power to Be Stopped

The Oscar-winning docmaker gets around the hiccup of Musk’s refusal to participate by creating an AI avatar of the world’s richest man.

By David Rooney

‘Musk’ Review: World’s Richest Man, And His Digital Avatar, Thrashed In Damning Alex Gibney Doc – Venice Film Festival

What sort of billionaire criticizes another billionaire for giving tons of money to charity? The same kind of billionaire who would gleefully gut USAID, calling it a “criminal organization,” a move that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, according to multiple estimates. What kind of entrepreneur falsely claims to have founded Tesla, when it […]

By Matthew Carey