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Boogie Man is a complex, absorbing study of the contradictory life and times of architect of modern smear politics.
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Drew Toal
Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics. November 10, 2008 | Full Review…
Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics.
Jonathan F. Richards
By the end of Forbes' brisk, economical portrait, Atwater has been revealed as a repugnant and pathetic soul--and a political visionary, among the first to fully understand and harness the raw power of voters' fears. October 31, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
By the end of Forbes' brisk, economical portrait, Atwater has been revealed as a repugnant and pathetic soul--and a political visionary, among the first to fully understand and harness the raw power of voters' fears.
Jessica Reaves
Conventional but absorbing. October 30, 2008 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Conventional but absorbing.
Nathan Rabin
Stricken with brain cancer in 1990, Atwater renounced his Machiavellian ways, but as Forbes points out, his legacy lives on in his eager proteges Karl Rove and George W. Bush. October 30, 2008 | Full Review…
Stricken with brain cancer in 1990, Atwater renounced his Machiavellian ways, but as Forbes points out, his legacy lives on in his eager proteges Karl Rove and George W. Bush.
J. R. Jones
Boogie Man is a fascinating portrait of an almost likable rogue. October 30, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Boogie Man is a fascinating portrait of an almost likable rogue.
Roger Ebert
Boogie Man provides an incisive and fascinating look at a man who sold his soul for victory. October 1, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Boogie Man provides an incisive and fascinating look at a man who sold his soul for victory.
David Harris
Boogie Man is an incredibly timely and relevant film that uncovers the origins of political dirty pool (Atwater was the architect of much of the attack-ad style currently being deployed in the 2008 American election). August 22, 2017 | Full Review…
Boogie Man is an incredibly timely and relevant film that uncovers the origins of political dirty pool (Atwater was the architect of much of the attack-ad style currently being deployed in the 2008 American election).
Dorothy Woodend
Fascinating to a political junkie like me who wasn't aware of the game back then. December 30, 2008
Fascinating to a political junkie like me who wasn't aware of the game back then.
Luke Y. Thompson
A morality tale about the sewer politics of the Republican Party since Reagan and very relevant to the 2008 elections. November 12, 2008 | Full Review…
A morality tale about the sewer politics of the Republican Party since Reagan and very relevant to the 2008 elections.
Louis Proyect
A cinematic smear job against Atwater would be the easiest thing in the world, but Forbes is more interested in presenting a complex character study than a piece of liberal agitprop. October 31, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A cinematic smear job against Atwater would be the easiest thing in the world, but Forbes is more interested in presenting a complex character study than a piece of liberal agitprop.
Rob Thomas
Both fascinating and upsetting, and makes you wish politics weren't so, well, political. October 30, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Both fascinating and upsetting, and makes you wish politics weren't so, well, political.
Matt Pais
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