8.2 /10 1 Votes8.2
99% Rotten Tomatoes Editor Anton Short | 6.6/10 IMDb Initial release 17 April 2016 Music director Arrws | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directors Dylan Harvey, Ian Roderick Gray Cast Giles Alderson, A.K. Forty-Seven, Andy Gibbins, Daniel Nettleton, Phil Dickson-Earle Screenplay Dylan Harvey, Ian Roderick Gray Similar Visual arts movies, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Banksy Job is a 2016 documentary film directed by Ian Roderick Gray and Dylan Harvey about how self-described "art terrorist" Andy Link (AK47) stole Banksy's sculpture, The Drinker.
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Funding for the film was crowdsourced in 2015 through Indiegogo. The film premiered at the April 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Andy Link attempted to attend the festival, but was denied a visa because of his criminal record.
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Reception
Alex Needham of The Guardian gave the film two out of five stars. He wrote that it "might entertain Banksy obsessives, and its elaborate re-creation of the incident and its aftermath surfs fact and fiction in a moderately interesting way. Yet it never convinces us that this story was worth telling." Needham also criticized the character AK47, writing that "he doesn't say anything amusing, or even interesting, in the course of the whole film."
John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a more positive review, saying that it would appeal to fans of Exit Through the Gift Shop. He praised the film's execution of the crime as "bumblingly funny" and the subsequent developments as "no less entertaining." Alina Cohen of Hyperallergic praised the film for providing "some great British humor, a compelling main character, and some well-deserved cultural mockery."