THIS IS NOT A MOVIE

"Arguably the most insightful examination of the life and psyche of the combat zone correspondent since Anthony Lloyd's peerless My War Gone By, I Miss It So, mixed with the acerbic idealism of the David Carr sequences of Page One… it proves that value of the journalist as record keeper of horrors. As Fisk explains, "No one can say this didn't happen, and no one can say, 'We didn't know. No one told us.'"

- Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle

"The Canada-born Chang, whose other documentaries include Up the Yangtze and The Fruit Hunters, covers a lot of ground here but never gets lost in the details, with editor Mike Munn culling all the footage in a streamlined fashion that makes each conflict clear to the viewer."

- Jordan Mintzer. The Hollywood Reporter

"Yung Chang shoots much of the film fly-on-the-wall style, folding in direct-to-camera interviews and voice-over, including a trove of archival video material and photographs from Fisk's almost 50-year career. Mike Munn's editing is astute, covering decades of work and complex

multi-party conflicts..."

- Liam Lacey, Original Cin

"This is Not a Movie is a smart, clear-eyed tribute to Robert Fisk… the two things that give this documentary its power and provocativeness are intellectual rather than dramatic: Fisk’s work, and his ideas."

- Mark Jenkins, Slant Magazine

"This is Not a Movie works so well due to great editing, intelligent directorial decisions and having a subject who is never short of entertaining. Fisk is a very personable and also combative character, which leads him into trouble; both physical and editorially. He’s not afraid to speak his mind or to take a stance which might not always be popular. "

- Rob Aldam, Backseat Mafia

"Chang and editor Mike Munn (Stories We Tell) work hard to give the film a cinematic quality. It opens with Fisk running down the street in Abadan in 1980 and ending up in Homs in 2018, thus connecting two different wars and four decades in one sequence… For anyone interested in a career in journalism, this is the movie."

- Kaleem Aftab, Cineuropa