Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, The Wrecking Crew

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

The Wrecking Crew





Capsule reviews of two of the week's new documentaries:

The Armstrong Lie

Alex Gibney is the preeminent, and perhaps the most prolific, documentarian in the current cinema.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

"We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks" is the latest work by the prolific and widely interested documentarian Alex Gibney, who over the past decade has given us highly infotaining films on subjects as disparate as financial fraud ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"), sexual abuse within the Catholic Church ("Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God"), chemically enriched journalism ("Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson"), and Iraq-war interrogation techniques (his Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side").