Grade: 3.5/5.0 'We Are As Gods' is not one of the better films of this year, but it is one of the most relevant, and it resists the mistakes that many other documentaries commit. For one, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg's biopic is not a hagiography of Stewart Brand — in probing the curiosities of the environmentalist, cyberneticist and Ken Kesey acolyte, it reveals what he has overlooked. After grand introductions of Brand as a 'Great American' in the vein of P. T. Barnum, the 'intellectual Johnny Appleseed of the counterculture' and 'da Vinci of cyberculture,' the film largely attributes his successes to an eerie ability to 'always be in the right place at the right time.

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