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Bob Roberts (1992)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0

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In the tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, producer/ director/ star Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts is a satire disguised as a documentary. Robbins plays the titular Roberts, a wealthy, well-connected young man running for a senatorial seat in Pennsylvania. On the surface, Roberts is an ingratiating glad-hander, a sincere believer in the restoration of such intangibles as national pride, family values, etc. But the longer Roberts is followed about by documentary filmmaker Brian Murray, the more we become

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Comedy

Tim Robbins

Oct 17, 2000

Paramount

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Critic Reviews for Bob Roberts

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A sometimes brilliant if overloaded pseudodocumentary satire.

July 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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A sort of political This Is Spinal Tap, Bob Roberts is both a stimulating social satire and, for thinking people, a depressing commentary on the devolution of the American political system.

June 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Bob Roberts is not merely a satirical fictional biopic, but a wry exploration of the relationship between political reality and manufactured image.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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A very funny, sometimes prescient satire of American politics, and of the comparatively small, voting portion of the electorate that makes a Bob Roberts phenomenon possible.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Tim Robbins inaugurates the fall season with a slashingly funny political satire that ranks with the year's best films.

May 12, 2001
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Robbins, who scripted and directed, creates more than enough on his own. Bob's un-hackneyed character is the prime case in point.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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A political horror story for teens and adults.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Heather Boerner
Common Sense Media

Robbins's satire is savvy and complex enough to send mixed signals to the viewers about politics and pop culture; both Democrats and Republicans may find supporting evidence for their arguments in his picture.

April 29, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Characteristically and welcomingly Tim Robbins

January 24, 2006
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Excelente análise sobre o sistema político americano e a forma com que a manipulação da mídia pode criar novos heróis. Atuação brilhante do diretor/roteirista Robbins, que também compôs as músicas de seu personagem.

July 25, 2003
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Admittedly, this is an uneven film, but it has a lot more pluses than minuses.

March 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

This Tim Robbins-helmed political satire about demogougery makes for an appropriate election-season re-release.

March 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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I hate these boring political dramas that try to be slightly satirical, as if that's going to entertain people. Politics is so boring, and this movie doesn't do anything (except maybe adding Rickman as eye candy) to make the audience interested in it. It's not one of the worst movies out there, but I really didn't care for it.
January 20, 2011
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AJ Verser

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Bob Roberts is a hilarious political satire mockumentary, relating the events of a fictional senatorial campaign. Despite coming out in 1992, many of the issues it brings up are surprisingly timely (occurring in the midst of the Gulf War), it has a lot of interesting (if not unfamiliar) things to say on our political system. The film's politics are driven by liberal-cliches, but it's done in a smart way that mocks the overall system rather than one party, and does so with some poignant thoughts from the great Gore Vidal (who also stars in the film). By far the best things about the film is the unbelievable cast filled with cameos from the top actors of the 90s (James Spader, John Cusack, etc), but also a number of laugh out loud lines such as:
"Don't smoke crack. It's a ghetto drug."

"I could use a strong finisher myself sometimes "
January 17, 2012
Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers

Super Reviewer

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