‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Definitive Documentary Puts the Pieces of Elon Musk Together — It’s a Lacerating Portrait of Technocratic Brilliance, Power Lust and Crackpot Delusion
What makes "Musk" such a lacerating and important watch, grounded in Alex Gibney’s supremely insightful but user-friendly mastery of the form, is that it takes this flamboyant but in many ways elusive figure, with his tech ambitions and cosmic dreams and malignant megalomania, and puts him all together, letting us see how one chapter of his life led to the next, and how the Musk dream wasn’t…
Elon Musk has been upset over the release of Alex Gibney's documentary, Musk, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival this week. The 3.5-hour film has received positive reviews, contrary to Musk's perception of it as a "hit piece" and "boring." Gibney does not shy away from portraying Musk as a con artist who has gained too much power in the tech and political industries, including his brief stint running the Trump administration's DOGE department.
Musk has responded to the film on Twitter by calling Gibney "a horrible human" and attacking St. Clair, one of the women featured in the film, for allegedly lying about being offered $40 million to sign an NDA. The documentary will be released in theaters on October 16 through Bleecker Street.
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