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In Whose Name?

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Immersed in Kanye West (Ye's) world of extremes for 6 years, Nico Ballesteros documented over 3,000 hours, bearing witness to brilliance, breakdowns, triumphs, turmoil, paranoia, and intensity that increasingly shaped Ye's world.
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Andrew Lawrence Guardian Sep 19, 2025
4/5
While "In Whose Name?", the most compelling of the Ye career autopsies by far, offers a more complete picture of where and how it all went so wrong, it doesn’t leave you feeling any less frustrated with the few new answers it manages to get. Go to Full Review Nicolas Rapold New York Times Sep 19, 2025
Ballesteros, who started the project when he was 18 years old, does his best to portray a reflexive iconoclast without excusing the inexcusable. Go to Full Review Steven J. Horowitz Variety Sep 19, 2025
On its face, the doc maintains its momentum merely based on access yet the film as a whole is as tedious and frustrating as West himself, a figure who is so deeply certain of his opinions yet wildly unmoored. Go to Full Review Stephen Silver Living Life Fearless Oct 1, 2025
It isn’t even that interesting ― in fact, it has just about nothing to say about Ye that we wouldn’t have known already, just from reading the media coverage. Go to Full Review Christie Cronan Common Sense Media Sep 29, 2025
3/5
This documentary is an intense exploration of fame and fragility that not only examines Ye's character through a truthful lens but forces viewers to confront contradictions that we all live with. Go to Full Review Andrew Reichel In Review Online Sep 24, 2025
Fascinating and frustrating... It’s undeniably powerful material: more salacious than insightful, but it’s also not like too many other musician documentaries. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Anthony Cavale Jun 7, 2026 YE for president🇺🇸 See more Anderson Dec 22, 2025 Amazing movie great visuals and great story telling and I learned a lot I didn’t know before about Kanye See more Cyril Dec 4, 2025 You can’t tell me nothing See more Crystal W Nov 17, 2025 Kanye West Early Documentaries IS BETTER!!! Editring Was Off KANYE WEST PERFECTIONIST... Ending WAS DOPE..OR/( GEAR UP FOR.... NEXT GREAT) dOH. DID See more Carlos Oct 7, 2025 As a Ye fan, this didn’t really push the envelope for ye’s mind. Maybe Nico held back on footage but a lot of the stuff shown or talked about was stuff majority most news outlets or ye fans already knew. Save it to rent it I’d say See more Juandi Oct 6, 2025 This was tough to sit through. I wanted to leave the movie theater several times. Kanye’s god complex will always come off cringe. So unfortunate for such a talented individual to spiral into who he is today. See more Read all reviews
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Nico Ballesteros

Director

Kanye West

Self

Nico Ballesteros

Screenwriter

Shy Ranje

Screenwriter

Simran A. Singh

Producer

Nico Ballesteros

Producer

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Movie Info

Synopsis Immersed in Kanye West (Ye's) world of extremes for 6 years, Nico Ballesteros documented over 3,000 hours, bearing witness to brilliance, breakdowns, triumphs, turmoil, paranoia, and intensity that increasingly shaped Ye's world.
Director
Nico Ballesteros
Producer
Simran A. Singh, Nico Ballesteros
Screenwriter
Nico Ballesteros, Shy Ranje
Distributor
AMSI Entertainment
Production Co
Foundation Media Partners, NB Studios, AMSI Entertainment
Rating
R
Genre
Documentary, Music
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 19, 2025, Limited
Runtime
1h 46m
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