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Mar 15, 2017 · Tickling Giants offers a powerful demonstration of how satire can influence government policy -- and a sobering warning regarding the double-edged effects of regime change. Following the Arab ...
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Mar 25, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Tickling Giants’. A documentary about Bassem Youssef, the Jon Stewart of Egypt (until the regime clamped down), is an ebullient ode to freedom. I would argue that the way we ...
Mar 16, 2017 · By Ken Jaworowski. March 16, 2017. There’s a lot to laugh at, and to learn from, in “Tickling Giants,” a documentary that starts off by telling the story of one man and ends up speaking ...
- Ken Jaworowski
- Sara Taksler
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 16, 2017. Ken Jaworowski New York Times. TOP CRITIC. There's a lot to laugh at, and to learn from, in "Tickling Giants," a documentary that starts off by ...
Mar 15, 2017 · Tickling Giants provides a comprehensive examination of Youssef’s career highs and lows while providing a vivid personal portrait of its subject whose cheerfulness and resolve began to wither in ...
Jul 6, 2017 · Tickling Giants is a comprehensive history of a show that was ahead of its time for its culture, and by the time the film’s emotionally gutting finale hits like a ton of bricks to the chest, viewers will understand full and well the significance of it all. Tickling Giants opens at The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto on Friday, July 7, 2017.
Apr 7, 2017 · Review: Price of laughter in the Mideast made clear in ‘Tickling Giants’. “I love sarcasm,” says Bassem Youssef, who wields it with the precision of a scalpel. “It allows me to cut ...
