Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Documentary Draws Critical Acclaim and Controversy at Venice

An Elon Musk documentary and a Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem thriller premiere at Venice - AP News

An Elon Musk documentary and a Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem thriller premiere at Venice  AP News

State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film

Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children Veteran documentarian Alex Gibney’s film about the richest broligarch on the planet has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films at the Venice film festival this year. The Oscar-winning 72-year-old, who has in previous films taken on the US military, the Catholic church, Vladimir Putin and Scientology, has been inv...

By Philip Oltermann in Venice

The first teaser for the Elon Musk documentary that Musk is mad about is here

Musk previously called Alex Gibney's documentary a "hit piece." Alex Wong/Getty Images The teaser for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary is here. It calls the film an "unflinching look at earth's most unchecked man." Musk has previously called the doc a "hit piece" and railed against Gibney on X. The teaser for the new Elon Musk documentary is here — and it ends on an explosive note. Alex Gibney's documentary about Musk premiered this week at the Venice International Film Festival. Around ...

Ashley St. Clair and Alex Gibney on AI and the dangers of Elon Musk

A new documentary about Elon Musk uses an AI avatar to simulate an interview with him, using real quotes

By Lindsey Bahr

‘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

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 always so grandiose.

By Owen Gleiberman

Alex Gibney’s Bold Elon Musk Documentary Unsettles Venice at Well-Received World Premiere

The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s nearly four-hour portrait picks apart the tech mogul’s mythology while examining his growing influence over tech, politics and American democracy.

By Patrick Brzeski

‘Musk’ Review: World’s Richest Man, And His Digital Avatar, Thrashed In Damning Alex Gibney Doc – Venice Film Festival

What sort of billionaire criticizes another billionaire for giving tons of money to charity? The same kind of billionaire who would gleefully gut USAID, calling it a “criminal organization,” a move that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, according to multiple estimates. What kind of entrepreneur falsely claims to have founded Tesla, when it […]

By Matthew Carey

Watch Teaser Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Forthcoming Elon Musk Documentary

Musk, about the world's richest man, will arrive in theaters in October

By Emily Zemler