In Whose Name?

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In Whose Name?

R

2025

1h 46m

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Music

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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.

Andrew Lawrence

Guardian

Sep 19

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.

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

Sep 19

Ballesteros, who started the project when he was 18 years old, does his best to portray a reflexive iconoclast without excusing the inexcusable.

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Steven J. Horowitz

Variety

Sep 19

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.

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Stephen Silver

Living Life Fearless

Oct 1

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.

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Christie Cronan

Common Sense Media

Sep 29

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.

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Andrew Reichel

In Review Online

Sep 24

Fascinating and frustrating... It’s undeniably powerful material: more salacious than insightful, but it’s also not like too many other musician documentaries.

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Anderson

Dec 22

Amazing movie great visuals and great story telling and I learned a lot I didn’t know before about Kanye

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Cyril

Dec 4

You can’t tell me nothing

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Crystal W

Nov 17

Kanye West Early Documentaries IS BETTER!!! Editring Was Off KANYE WEST PERFECTIONIST... Ending WAS DOPE..OR/( GEAR UP FOR.... NEXT GREAT) dOH. DID

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Carlos

Oct 7

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

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Juandi

Oct 6

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.

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Austin

Oct 1

It was abstract, intentional, & it seemed like the directors did what they could to tell a story yet be unbiased.

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Nico Ballesteros

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Kanye West

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Nico Ballesteros

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Shy Ranje

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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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