FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

proud_luddite A documentary covers the private and political life of Anthony Weiner during his campaign to run as mayor for New York City in 2013.The beginning of the film informs of Weiner's promising career as a congressman during which he fought passionately for underdogs and other good causes. But in 2011, he was disgraced and had to resign as he had been caught exposing explicit photos of himself on the Internet.This documentary is almost like a fictional film in that there is a riveting start with snappy editing, an encouraging mood, and then a plot twist that throws everything right off.In the second half right until the end, the movie leaves many questions: why stay in a long campaign and face more humiliation for yourself and your wife (Huma Abadin who has also been a top aide to Hillary Clinton)?; why did you not get help for your compulsions and sick behavior?; why did you bother to have even more exposure and degradation by doing this documentary (this question is actually asked though in different words)?The viewer might even feel guilty at witnessing some conversations and silent exchanges between spouses that should truly have been kept private. Perhaps, there is even a greater neurosis about receiving attention of any kind that would allow this privacy to be so exposed.In any case, this film is fascinating in exposing a very odd element of the human condition. Even more odd is after watching it, it's still possible to like Anthony - not just for his good causes but also when he gets fired up in arguments with a pompous political commentator on TV and a voter in a bakery shop. He's got fire.

Hellmant 'WEINER': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)The critically acclaimed documentary about Anthony Weiner's troubled political campaign for Mayor of New York City, in 2013. The movie was directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg. It not only received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics, but it was also nominated for dozens of prestigious awards (and it made multiple critics' year end top 10 lists). I think it deserves all of the acclaim it's been given.The film begins in 2011, when Anthony Weiner was forced to resign from Congress; due to inappropriate photos of him in his underwear surfacing online (that he had previously sent to multiple women). The film then covers his reemergence in politics, in 2013, when he ran for Mayor of New York City (in the Democratic Party primary). The filmmakers follow him, and his wife Huma Abedin, as things first went really well for them (in the campaign). Then the couple was forced to deal with more accusations of inappropriate sexual conduct (by Weiner). This also (of course) caused severe trouble for the campaign.The movie is cringeworthy to watch, a lot of the time, but (for me at least) I couldn't look away either. It's so bizarrely fascinating, and extremely insightful. The filmmakers managed to get an incredibly intimate look into the personal life of Anthony Weiner; and he claims that they didn't have permission to use video of his wife. The film wouldn't have been nearly as insightful, or intimate, if they hadn't used it though. It's a documentary masterpiece, just about as good as they get (in my opinion)!Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/mFAp0zxR-lY

paul2001sw-1 Anthony Weiner was a loud-mouthed congressman whose career came to and end amid (relatively) minor sexual scandal. But Weiner is an insufferable egoist, and instead of accepting his time in the spotlight had come to an end, he decided to stand for the mayoralty of New York City, and invited a documentary maker to film him as he did so. The results are painful: the press is only interested in the scandal, new scandal erupts, but the underlying feeling one gets is of Weiner's selfishness and need for attention. That he might just retreat to a backroom role for the sake of his wife (an aide to Hilary Clinton) never seems to occur to him. Weiner might ultimately be remembered as more than a footnote because an FBI investigation into his sexual texting was exploited by enemies of Clinton during her recent failed election campaign against Donald Trump. Aside from that, this documentary is basically a reminder that politicians are simply not like the rest of us, not because we're all morally virtuous, but because any normal person caught in this sort of situation would give up and move on.

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.