The New Radical

The New Radical is a 2017 documentary film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Documentary Competition.[1] In the film, uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape. The film contains an interview with Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.

The New Radical
Directed byAdam Bhala Lough
Produced byLucy Sumner
Greg Stewart
Brent Stiefel
Alex Needles
StarringCody Wilson
Amir Taaki
Julian Assange
Music byClint Mansell
CinematographyChristopher Messina
Edited byAlex Lee Moyer,
Jay Rabinowitz
Distributed byThe Orchard
Release date
  • January 25, 2017 (2017-01-25) (Sundance)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Critical response

Owen Gleiberman writing for Variety said, "The great strength of The New Radical is that it's not on its subjects' side (or totally against them either). It's the rare documentary that lets you decide."[2] While Katie Walsh in the Los Angeles Times called the film's objectivity "irresponsible" and "problematic," chastising the filmmakers for not taking a side.[3]

gollark: It's not programmed to do that. That would be *rational optimization* for some goal, which brains are bad at.
gollark: I have no idea how to do fun comparison across species, and food scarcity and misery sounds not fun.
gollark: It matters to current-me, so I don't want to do that.
gollark: It would be fun to the *edited* me.
gollark: "Fun" is probably just some weird heuristic for novelty-seeking, but it manifests more as a terminal goal than some bad mental tool for navigating goals.

References
  1. "The New Radical". 1 December 2017 – via www.imdb.com.
  2. Gleiberman, Owen (24 January 2017). "Sundance Film Review: 'The New Radical'".
  3. Walsh, Katie. "Documentary 'The New Radical' perilously withholds judgment". latimes.com.
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