The Brink (2019 film)

The film follows Bannon from his latter days in the Trump administration to just after the 2018 midterms as he attempts to form a global populist movement with like minded individuals such as Nigel Farage, Marie Le Pen, Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orban, etc.

• Steve Bannon
• Nigel Farage

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85%, based on 98 reviews, with an average rating of 7.19/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Brink won't change many minds about its subject, but it remains a compelling – if perhaps difficult to watch – look at a divisive ideological lightning rod."[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 71 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".[3]

New York Magazine's David Edelstein wrote that the film is "the year’s most urgent documentary — the one you need to see this week, not this year." [4] In his positive Variety review, Owen Glieberman wrote "'The Brink' is a far better and more penetrating film than Errol Morris’s Bannon portrait, American Dharma, which let Bannon bathe in his own aura." He also says "Bannon has a way of revealing himself when he thinks he’s not." [5]

David Fear of Rolling Stone wrote in his review "Portrait of a Political Charlatan in Winter", "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". He also says the director's"methodology feels like a combo of fly-on-the-wall and give-’em-enough-rope.".[6] A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a Critic's Pick.[7]

• Official website
• The Brink on IMDb
• The Brink at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Brink at Metacritic
• The Brink at Box Office Mojo