Winner

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Winner

PG-13

2024

1h 43m

Biography

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Based on a true story, Reality Winner (Emilia Jones) is a brilliant young misfit from a Texas border town who loves her pink gun almost as much as helping others. After teaching herself Arabic in high school so she can be of service in the Middle East, Reality is recruited by the Air Force but quickly becomes disillusioned when she finds her morals challenged. After transitioning to a money gig as an NSA contractor, Reality stumbles upon government secrets regarding Russia's election hacking during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Does she expose the truth or keep quiet? Ultimately, she decides to leak the truth leading to her trial and historic sentencing for espionage.

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Critics Consensus

Susanna Fogel's comprehensive take on this true story has some rooting interest thanks in part to Emilia Jones' engaging performance, but a discordantly jaunty tone keeps it from being a real winner.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

09/16/2024

Susanna Fogel's surprisingly jovial bio-pic about the whistle-blower Reality Winner fills a conventional format with patriotic outrage.

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

09/12/2024

“Winner,” a sweeping biopic that presents [Reality] as something like an American Girl doll for the “I’m not like other girls” set.

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Chase Hutchinson

TheWrap

02/27/2024

Though it tries to hit on some of the same points as “Reality” and broaden its scope, Fogel’s film ultimately sacrifices depth for breadth.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Dec 19

This is a cutesy, quippy portrait of a complex American activist reduced to a yassified girlboss (and other such things I have no business trying to work into a review).

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Joshua Ryan

Movies We Texted About

07/19/2025

It’s mostly a surface-level look at depression and guilt, but what it lacks in depth, it makes up for with a terrific leading performance and an overall entertaining delivery.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

11/07/2024

4/5

…offers a concerning, persuasive and stern ‘just the facts’ account of what its like to be young, female and disenfranchised…the story of Reality Winner couldn’t be more timely because it exposes the raw brand of misogyny injected into America’s core…

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C R

@RT57505758 Aug 30

Well, the now thoroughly debunked Russiagate hoax that this film embraces certainly didn't age well. 😅

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Crunch d

@CrunchdGraceHopper Aug 25

See video segment 15 (at > 1x speed) linked to densho.org at https://x.com/ItanoGary for how my career in cybersecurity started in implementing an ultra top secret (pre-Skynet) “Weapons of the World” database, which informs me of the accuracy of this interpretation of USA military knowledge work. Feel free to comment/?/feedback.

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Adam L

@RT88548629 06/24/2025

Just a typical Hollywood spin on things.

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Jeffrey P

@vanillavoodoo1 03/20/2025

An interesting character story that felt like it was something other than advertised, when it finally got to what was expected it seemed rushed and unimportant, and without a lot of emotion felt. The real shock comes from it not seeming like a big deal yet going about its ending as if it did. I’m all for shining a light on potentially corrupt government, so it gets a passing grade.

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Hugh J

@RT93907031 03/10/2025

A great bio-pic that shows the moral balancing act among government and individuals and the reasoning they use for their actions. The film also does a good job of holding up a mirror to the public and how they tend to sweep away concerns that should be at least properly investigated.

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Matty D

@Matty927 02/22/2025

Winner isn’t going to take home the award for best biopic. But as far as conventional biopics go, this is an important one. To get the full picture of events, this film pairs best with the MAX film titled Reality. The whistleblower Reality Winner is an American who was just trying to do something she believed every American had a right to know. The way our government treated her after was appalling. This film offers an entertaining and empathetic portrait of who Reality Winner is/was and what she ended up experiencing as a consequence of her actions. Definitely worth a watch.

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Based on a true story, Reality Winner (Emilia Jones) is a brilliant young misfit from a Texas border town who loves her pink gun almost as much as helping others. After teaching herself Arabic in high school so she can be of service in the Middle East, Reality is recruited by the Air Force but quickly becomes disillusioned when she finds her morals challenged. After transitioning to a money gig as an NSA contractor, Reality stumbles upon government secrets regarding Russia's election hacking during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Does she expose the truth or keep quiet? Ultimately, she decides to leak the truth leading to her trial and historic sentencing for espionage.

Director: Susanna Fogel
Producer: Amanda Phillips, Susanna Fogel, Shivani Rawat, Julie Goldstein, Scott Budnick, Ameet Shukla
Screenwriter: Kerry Howley, Susanna Fogel
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: Big Beach, Scythia Films
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 13, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 13, 2024
Runtime: 1h 43m