The Dissident

"For all its wealth of detail and thematic ambition, The Dissident is a good documentary that never quite becomes great."

"Does the world need two documentaries about him, coming in rapid succession? Maybe not. But you wouldn’t go wrong by watching either one."

"Fogel proves that he is a major documentary storyteller with his completely shocking and gripping follow-up “The Dissident,” which assembles all of the many pieces behind Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination into a comprehensive narrative..."

"It makes up for a dry and sometimes stilted filmmaking approach through sheer clarity of purpose."

"The Dissident holds few new revelations but presents its case with enough infuriating evidence and storytelling power to make it worthwhile."

"Bryan Fogel's powerful documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian Washington Post journalist, is an eye-opening thriller brew of corruption, cover-up, and real-world courage."

"This is a documentary both tragic and poignant, not to mention maddening in that only a few underlings, and not the perpetrators, will pay for the crime committed in Istanbul. The evidence is all here for the world to see."