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Empathetic performances from a starry cast gives Game Change authenticity and heart, although its political insights often warble between feeling too soon and too late.
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Try as the filmmakers might, it just isn't the same. How could it be, really? Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
Try as the filmmakers might, it just isn't the same. How could it be, really?
Alec MacGillis
Actress Moore makes one actually feel sorry for Sarah Palin at points in this wonderful film. Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
Actress Moore makes one actually feel sorry for Sarah Palin at points in this wonderful film.
Liz Smith
The dramatic re-creations are somewhat uneven: The convention staging is quite convincing, the campaign trail less so. Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
The dramatic re-creations are somewhat uneven: The convention staging is quite convincing, the campaign trail less so.
David Hiltbrand
The constant use of actual news footage adds a bit of verisimilitude but also constantly raises the question of why this lightly fictionalized version of the election actually needs to exist. Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
The constant use of actual news footage adds a bit of verisimilitude but also constantly raises the question of why this lightly fictionalized version of the election actually needs to exist.
Alex Pareene
Game Change, which explores how smart people make dumb decisions, is a movie for all of us. Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
Game Change, which explores how smart people make dumb decisions, is a movie for all of us.
Brian Dickerson
The movie is more balanced than I expected. Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
The movie is more balanced than I expected.
Linda Stasi
This established group of actors create such a convincing illusion that they make it feel as if the viewer was really in the room when these discussions occurred. Oct 22, 2018 | Full Review…
This established group of actors create such a convincing illusion that they make it feel as if the viewer was really in the room when these discussions occurred.
Sarah Gopaul
What's truly distressing about the production is that, for all its excellence as a film, it really is all about a game. It is a movie about tactics and strategy, not about governing a country. Oct 17, 2018 | Full Review…
What's truly distressing about the production is that, for all its excellence as a film, it really is all about a game. It is a movie about tactics and strategy, not about governing a country.
Charles P. Pierce
A cracking political drama about the true story of the meteoric rise to notoriety by Alaska governor Sarah Palin (played with eerie precision by Julianne Moore). Aug 30, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A cracking political drama about the true story of the meteoric rise to notoriety by Alaska governor Sarah Palin (played with eerie precision by Julianne Moore).
Leigh Paatsch
Is [Game Change] cynical? At worst, yes. If nothing else, it is a sad look inside the current politic process in the United States. Aug 9, 2017 | Full Review…
Is [Game Change] cynical? At worst, yes. If nothing else, it is a sad look inside the current politic process in the United States.
Sr. Rose Pacatte
It's a comedy, for at least 30% of its running time, leaving the rest a condensed, perplexing vision of Washington ambition and insistent ego, leaving the movie somewhere between a cartoon and a mean-spirited prank. Sep 23, 2012 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
It's a comedy, for at least 30% of its running time, leaving the rest a condensed, perplexing vision of Washington ambition and insistent ego, leaving the movie somewhere between a cartoon and a mean-spirited prank.
Brian Orndorf
The reality is that HBO's Game Change makes a bad showing by arming game and gifted players with a weak and labored script. Aug 6, 2012 | Full Review…
The reality is that HBO's Game Change makes a bad showing by arming game and gifted players with a weak and labored script.
Mark Dawidziak
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