Glenn Greenwald says on his Twitter account that this is a "great" review of Citizenfour by Alyssa Rosenberg in the Washington Post.
I immediately have a question, if not a criticism, about it. The critic twice makes it appear as though Edward Snowden did not want to - or at least was not ready to - "come out" publicly that he was the source of the leaks. In fact, in one place, she actually says "Greenwald talks Snowden into coming out in part to provide a political rationale for his actions..."
Obviously, the critic has not been paying attention to Greenwald's numerous mentions that Snowden wanted to go public with his identity early on in no small part so that other people would not be under suspicion. (He was hesitant to be filmed, because he didn't want the story to be about him rather than the information in the leaks.)
It's been a little while since I saw the film. Was it unclear that Snowden himself was the one who wanted to go public with his identity? I don't think so, but if it was, that was an error on Laura Poitras' part - or her editor, perhaps. I'll have to watch it again.
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