Good Night, And Good Luck Reviews
Suite101.com
Untethered to any post-TV era is a conclusion that America gets too comfortable with the mental inactivity it enables. Edward R. Murrow's titular signoff begins as a trademark and ends as a challenge to a medium - one too often unmet today.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
CinePassion
Lean study of the quandaries of asking questions in the media, and of crafting a political film in Hollywood
Cinema Crazed
A film that will live on for years, because it bears a message about dissension, and the power of the press. A power that's faded.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Empire Magazine
Provocative, principled and richly detailed, this is compelling stuff. Emotionally itâ(TM)s a little dry, but as brain-food, itâ(TM)s absolutely invigorating. George done good.
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| Original Score: 4/5
eFilmCritic.com
Scrupulously journalistic, sometimes to its credit, sometimes to its deficit as a movie.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Big Picture Big Sound
Good Night is not your average historical recreation. It doesn't dumb-down its story or its characters with needless explanation for the benefit of an under-educated audience.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Eye for Film
proves that it is still possible in the cinema, if not in television, to inform without being boring and entertain without condescending.
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| Original Score: 4/5
WBAI Web Radio
Having your heart in the right place doesn't quite compensate for keeping your mouth somewhat shut and turning the volume down to an ideological whisper.
Observer [UK]
Clooney's excellent film uses the past to make today's media and their audiences address their responsibilities.
MovieCrypt.com
... a timely reminder of the consequences of failing to balance national security with personal liberties... (believability is) what really comes through on the screen...
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| Original Score: 3.5/4.0
The Nation
It's both a crafty little picture and a forthright one -- a neat trick.
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Cinema Sight
David Strathairn is terrific and with George Clooney's passion for his subject, they make [i]Good Night[/i] a satisfying comparison between the past and the present.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Christianity Today
Many will see it as a cautionary tale: Don't let anyone else do your thinking for you. The truth is the thing. Cherish it and defend it.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Cinema Writer
more interested using the movie medium as a pulpit from which to pontificate...political beliefs rather than in telling a dramatically engaging story
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Sydney Morning Herald
That it's a film both timely and timeless goes without saying. Yet Clooney is too canny a storyteller to let didacticism obscure the complexities of Murrow's character.
It's a modest but powerful affair, and a fantastic mood piece.
Sacramento News & Review
Strathairn's performance is uncanny, and the 1950s period detail is spot-on.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Metropolis
Today, history records Edward R. Murrow as a towering journalist and Senator McCarthy as a sniveling tyrant. Don't you love it when history gets it right.
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| Original Score: 9/10
