‘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 […]
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‘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
Read full article →‘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
Read full article →‘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
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