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LBJ loses sight of its complicated subject, ignoring the more intriguing aspects of his personality and career in favor of a frustratingly ordinary biopic treatment.
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[Woody] Harrelson gives an impressionistic performance. He doesn't look much like LBJ, even after the make-up, nor can he bring his voice to the same low register, but he understands the coyote cunning of the man. Jun 1, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
[Woody] Harrelson gives an impressionistic performance. He doesn't look much like LBJ, even after the make-up, nor can he bring his voice to the same low register, but he understands the coyote cunning of the man.
Paul Byrnes
Woody Harrelson in the title role has enough spice to keep the viewer alert and attentive. Nov 6, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Woody Harrelson in the title role has enough spice to keep the viewer alert and attentive.
Rex Reed
The best thing the director has going for him is his star, Woody Harrelson. Nov 3, 2017 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The best thing the director has going for him is his star, Woody Harrelson.
Chris Nashawaty
It's as workmanlike as Johnson was as a politician; but as a primer on one of history's less flashy leaders, it's a worthwhile watch - mostly for fellow Texan Woody Harrelson's committed performance behind those prosthetic ears. Nov 3, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's as workmanlike as Johnson was as a politician; but as a primer on one of history's less flashy leaders, it's a worthwhile watch - mostly for fellow Texan Woody Harrelson's committed performance behind those prosthetic ears.
Sara Stewart
Captures a tumultuous political era and one of its most profanely colorful leaders with a good deal of insight and emotional torque. Nov 3, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Captures a tumultuous political era and one of its most profanely colorful leaders with a good deal of insight and emotional torque.
Godfrey Cheshire
Harrelson gives it all he has as the gruff, emotionally needy and politically savvy successor to the matinee-idol commander-in-chief, John F. Kennedy. Nov 3, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Harrelson gives it all he has as the gruff, emotionally needy and politically savvy successor to the matinee-idol commander-in-chief, John F. Kennedy.
Brad Wheeler
Here the physical and the verbal prevail over the analytic. This ends up placing the film in the category of conventional biopic. [Full review in Spanish] Nov 27, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Here the physical and the verbal prevail over the analytic. This ends up placing the film in the category of conventional biopic. [Full review in Spanish]
Fernando Bernal
Rob Reiner, in creative decline since the mid-nineties, approaches the personality of Lyndon B. Johnson in his best film in years. [Full Review in Spanish] Nov 26, 2018 | Full Review…
Rob Reiner, in creative decline since the mid-nineties, approaches the personality of Lyndon B. Johnson in his best film in years. [Full Review in Spanish]
Javier Ocaña
LBJ is an eye-opening and sensitive look at a man who looked everyone in the eye and fought with conviction and respect to bring a nation together during one of its darkest moments. Nov 16, 2018 | Full Review…
LBJ is an eye-opening and sensitive look at a man who looked everyone in the eye and fought with conviction and respect to bring a nation together during one of its darkest moments.
Debbie Lynn Elias
There's nothing in LBJ, and certainly nothing in the scene in question, that conveys anything but the most blasé of platitudes. Oct 28, 2018 | Full Review…
There's nothing in LBJ, and certainly nothing in the scene in question, that conveys anything but the most blasé of platitudes.
Daniel Nava
Despite the prosthetics applied to Woody Harrelson's face he does not really look like LBJ but this does not detract from a convincing interpretation... Aug 27, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Despite the prosthetics applied to Woody Harrelson's face he does not really look like LBJ but this does not detract from a convincing interpretation...
Lyn Potter
Harrelson captures Johnson's dogged, hardworking approach to politics... He injects pace, energy and colour into a familiar storytelling approach that flicks back and forth across the period. Aug 9, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Harrelson captures Johnson's dogged, hardworking approach to politics... He injects pace, energy and colour into a familiar storytelling approach that flicks back and forth across the period.
Francesca Rudkin
From Rob Reiner comes the incredibly compelling political thriller LBJ. The story follows Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mist of the Kennedy assassination as he's swept into the presidency and has to decide how to proceed with Kennedy's social agenda and what kind of president he wants to be. Starring Woody Harrelson, Jeffrey Donovan, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the film has an impressive cast that delivers some really good performances. And, the script is especially well-written and uses flashbacks to cover Johnson's political career and history with the Kennedys. However, it kind of skirts around the Vietnam War, focusing instead on Johnson as the workhorse who turned Kennedy's dream into a reality with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There's a rose-colored tint to LBJ, but it's still a fascinating look at the man who shepherded the country through an extraordinary crisis.
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