ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

kosmasp Shortened movie quotes aside, we get a real intimate behind the scenes look of a very compelling and appealing "character" in politics. He had the guts to stand up and I guess it would have been a feast to see him and Anthony Scaramucci go head to head. Now that could almost be a political PPV word fight. But even so, the a glutton for punishment Weiner, digs himself a hole .. or rather quite a few, that he cannot seem to escape.Chances are you have heard of him (and his infamous "selfies"). If not be aware that this has some colorful language and of course a sexual matter as a topic. It is sort of surprising that Weiner allows us to be so close to him ... via camera that is of course. There are a couple of moments where the documentarian is breaking the fourth wall .. understandably so, because like us, he is confused at what is going on ... Very intimate look and surely not for everybody, but definitely very powerful and engaging.

gf-78 Wow. Trump types seem to come in a variety of sizes, forms and assorted dick pic's. This documentary was a close study of a narcissistic, self centered out of touch political candidate that will stop at absolutely nothing to get what he wants to achieve, being elected to a high ranking public office. The mayor of New York in this particular case. Anthony Weiner here willingly tries to deceive his presumptive voters, his campaign staff and most importantly his stellar wife by dodging questions, withholding truths and using anyone and everyone close to him as his own private puppets or pawns in an effort to gain voters support. In every interview seen here where he is confronted by honest and just questions by both the public and media, Mr Weiner makes it out (in his own mind it seems) that he himself has come away as the victor and smarter one of the exchange when the truth, to us seeing it, is the exact opposite. Scary stuff for sure...

Russ Hog This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. It follows the real life story of Anthony Weiner as he runs for the Mayor of NYC after a national sexting scandal. Our hero - Mr. Weiner - is a tragic hero who sews the seeds of his own destruction while at the same time fights to save his family and his legacy. It seems to me that Anthony has a disease called sexual addiction - which does not mean that he is addicted sex more than it means he has an impulse that makes him take risky behavior. People with sexual addiction can get some help and fix the problem. But - it is a serious illness.The pain on his wife's face as she deals with these scandals is harrowing - and it does make me wonder how he could put her through this. Also - there is a young woman he sexted that goes out of her way to draw attention to herself in the film - and she seems very selfish. This movie is a masterful work of cinema that sheds insight into a mind of a self destructive brilliant human being.At the end - someone asks, "Why are you letting me film this?" Good question - and perhaps the answer is that this is a truly great story - and it needed to be told!

Emma Bridge I'm not going to do a precis of the film, given others here already have.But: 1) I'm a picky so'n'so, and I think anything above 8/10 requires bribery or blackmail. Yet I barely hesitated on giving this full marks. 2) Most of the reviews are from men, who are bemused as to why Abedin stayed with Weiner for so long. As a woman, I'd suggest it's because ... 3) I've never seen charisma come over before on a screen. There's watchable in terms of actors, but that's different. This guy OOOZES charisma, to the point that it's leaking out of the screen. She didn't stay with him because she wanted to stay, she stayed because she struggled to leave.This review is being written on 9/11/16, i.e. the day of Trump's victory in the US election (he makes a brief, hugely hypocritical contribution in the first 10 mins). The BBC showed this over the weekend, which was just after the Clinton / FBI / Abedin / Weiner contribution to the e-mail issue. Either the Beeb got *very* lucky on scheduling, or they pulled a blinder on rescheduling.Trump has no self-awareness, cares nothing for his electorate, and struggles to stay away from women. Weiner's the opposite on the first two points, but identical on the third. Watch this film if you want to see the kind of human who should be allowed power, as opposed to the sociopath who's achieved it.