The Brink's reviews
Media reviews
New York Times
Fast-moving, tightly packed, at times unnervingly entertaining.
Variety
The Brink is an impeccably crafted verité ramble ? an engaging and enraging, disturbing and highly revealing movie.
The Wrap
Klayman, an increasingly skilled observer as a documentarian, occasionally succumbs to her own curiosity, or maybe incredulity, to ask him a question about these comments, or positions, but mostly, her quiet, unobtrusive gaze exposes his flaws without requiring interjection.
Indiewire
The result is a watchable overview with few explosive details.
Roger Ebert
It?s when Bannon starts turning his attention to Europe, and then the 2018 midterms, that Klayman gets to record the less pleasant aspects of Bannon?s personality ? those you thought were always there, maybe, but that he was able to keep hidden.
Rolling Stone
'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.
Los Angeles Times
Cinéma vérité all the way, a classic fly-on-the-wall documentary that follows Bannon for about a year as he flies hither and yon on private jets, taking meetings, bolstering supporters and attempting to turn his brand of fervent nationalism into a global movement.
The Hollywood Reporter
This Bannon is a snooze, occasionally making a wry aside but nearly never saying anything unusually smart or new. ... It's hard to see what ordinary viewers at any point on the political spectrum will gain from this particular status report.