Alex Gibney is one of the strongest documentarians working
today. He’s basically the embodiment of the more investigative, journalistic
side of the art form, diving head-long into incredibly intricate and invariably
depressing subjects, managing to unearth gold more times than not. We last
caught up with him with the 2015 Scientology documentary Going Clear, a film so
effective that I still can’t listen to Bohemian Rhapsody without feeling
slightly ill. And with his latest, he’s getting into a topic that might be even
dicier than going through David Miscavige’s dirty laundry: Putin’s Russia.
