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As with Poitras' previous film, the Oscar-winning Edward Snowden documentary 'Citizenfour,' the filmmaker is granted intimate access to her subject. Assange can be seen navigating the thicket of global media and U.S. Government forces from his British home base; donning disguises in an anonymous hotel room (shades of Snowden in 'Citizenfour); and, of course, at the Ecuador Embassy, where for much of the film police keep careful watch on the structure.
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(The film shares commonalities of only the most superficial kind with 'The Fifth Estate,' Bill Condon's poorly received Assange dramatization starring Benedict Cumberbatch in 2013.).