Seamless and as darkly riveting as any John le Carre or Graham Greene thriller, Laura Poitras' Citizenfour puts an indelibly human face on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, while ripping away any mask of pretense that the most massive and sophisticated breach of privacy in American history had grounding in reality, let alone the law. Almost defiantly avoiding most of the technological gimcrackery we've come …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM on October 11, 2014