Dubious characters

Films built on access that the subject should probably not have granted. McNamara talks for two hours about burning Tokyo, McAfee waves a pistol around, Imelda Marcos hands cash out of a car window. Each of them believes they are winning, and that belief is the film.

• The Wonderful, Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) ★★★
• The Fog of War (2003) ★★★
• The Unknown Known (2013) ★★
• Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016) ★★★
• Weiner (2016) ★★
• Get Me Roger Stone (2017) ★
• The Kingmaker (2019) ★★★
• Dogs of War (2024) ★★★
• Bankrupt Billionaire (2023) ★★
• When Louis Met... Jimmy (2000) ★★
• Fear of 13 (2015) ★