The Brink (2019 film)

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84%, based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Brink won't change many minds about its subject, but it remains a compelling – if perhaps difficult to watch – look at a divisive ideological lightning rod."^[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 71 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".^[4]

New York Magazine's David Edelstein wrote that the film is "the year’s most urgent documentary — the one you need to see this week, not this year."^[5] In his positive Variety review, Owen Glieberman wrote "The Brink is a far better and more penetrating film than Errol Morris’s Bannon portrait, American Dharma, which let Bannon bathe in his own aura." He also says "Bannon has a way of revealing himself when he thinks he’s not."^[6]

David Fear of Rolling Stone wrote in his review "Portrait of a Political Charlatan in Winter": "The Brink, Alison Klayman’s insightful and often unnerving look at one of the most divisive figures in recent memory, isn’t a particularly fun or easy watch". He also says the director's "methodology feels like a combo of fly-on-the-wall and give-’em-enough-rope.".^[7] A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a Critic's Pick.^[8]

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• The Brink at Metacritic
• The Brink at Box Office Mojo

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