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  "id": 6277363,
  "title": "‘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",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/musk-review-alex-gibneys-definitive-documentary-puts-the-pieces-of",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-08T12:05:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/musk-review-elon-musk-alex-gibney-1236854369/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "IndieWire",
        "title": "Alex Gibney Warns Elon Musk’s DOGE Data Could Be Used ‘for an AI to Influence the Election’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/alex-gibney-warns-elon-musks-doge-data-could-be-used-for-an-ai-to",
        "published": "2026-09-08T11:32:27.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hollywood Reporter",
        "title": "Alex Gibney’s Bold Elon Musk Documentary Unsettles Venice at Well-Received World Premiere",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/alex-gibneys-bold-elon-musk-documentary-unsettles-venice-at-well",
        "published": "2026-09-08T16:18:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "IOL",
        "title": "‘Visionary or conman?’ Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary premieres in Venice",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/visionary-or-conman-alex-gibneys-musk-documentary-premieres-in-venice",
        "published": "2026-09-09T03:50:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}