Good Night, And Good Luck Reviews

Murrow is an insufferable sourpuss, everything is life-and-death over-dramatized, and who cares about Communists now?

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The film, therefore, is like a child's view of these events, untroubled by complexity, hungry for myth and simplicity.

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The film's tight shots and incessant cigarette smoke don't give the material or the audience much room to breathe.

Full Review | Original Score: C

It's an interesting way to represent the past, though the use of space, actors, and archival footage seems more theatrical than cinematic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Good Night, and Good Luck. isn't memorable, even in the short run, because it creates a desire for information that Clooney has no intention of fulfilling.

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A technically astute but sometimes creatively crippled film.

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A travesty.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

The smoke can't blur the fact the characters are paper thin.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Not only was Good Night, and Good Luck filmed in black-and-white, it was written and acted that way, too. This is Good versus Evil for Political Dummies.

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Isn't nearly as hard-hitting as it wants to be or as penetrating as it should.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Sometimes conservatives are right - critics will praise a movie purely because it agrees with their politics

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The movie gradually deflates due to an overreliance on archival footage (of the McCarthy hearings, mostly) and a fondness for speechmaking.

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Except in a few rare moments, the film remains more of a dry history lesson than a movie in its own right.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Good Night illuminates contemporary themes vis-a-vis the relationships among the media, government and parent corporations beholden to the bottom line.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The bottom line on Good Night, and Good Luck? See it. Now.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

On balance, the virtues of Good Night, and Good Luck far outpace its detriments though it does offer handholds for those who would attack it on political grounds.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Clooney's message is clear: Character assassination is wrong, McCarthy was a bully and a liar, and we must be vigilant when the emperor has no clothes and wraps himself in the flag.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Part docu-drama, part thriller, and part cautionary tale, the movie offers something to everyone who craves more than escapism from the cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Clooney makes an elegant argument that something of vital interest is still at stake in this story. It would take a stubborn soul to disagree.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4