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Fast and frenetic, The Paper captures the energy of the newsroom thanks to its cast and director on first-rate form.
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The picture starts to fall in love with its subject -- head- over-heels in love, until the acid drains from the wit and there's nothing left but sentimental ooze. Apr 12, 2002 | Full Review…
The picture starts to fall in love with its subject -- head- over-heels in love, until the acid drains from the wit and there's nothing left but sentimental ooze.
Rick Groen
It's all slick, fizzy fun. But the film's fighting spirit gets snatched. Jun 6, 2001
It's all slick, fizzy fun. But the film's fighting spirit gets snatched.
Peter Travers
Perfectly captures the hubbub of the nation's newsrooms. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Perfectly captures the hubbub of the nation's newsrooms.
Rita Kempley
Thanks to a caffeinated cast and hyperactive script, director Ron Howard delivers The Paper with a bang. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Thanks to a caffeinated cast and hyperactive script, director Ron Howard delivers The Paper with a bang.
Joe Brown
Watching The Paper got me in touch all over again with how good it feels to work at the top of your form, on a story you believe in, on deadline. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Watching The Paper got me in touch all over again with how good it feels to work at the top of your form, on a story you believe in, on deadline.
Roger Ebert
A crowd pleaser, and, regardless of any viewer's experience (or lack thereof) with the behind-the-scenes wrangling that goes on in newspaper offices, the story is affable and entertaining. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A crowd pleaser, and, regardless of any viewer's experience (or lack thereof) with the behind-the-scenes wrangling that goes on in newspaper offices, the story is affable and entertaining.
James Berardinelli
The inside-baseball feel of the newsroom material (co-writer Stephen Koepp did time in the trenches) is what makes 'The Paper' sing. May 3, 2016 | Full Review…
The inside-baseball feel of the newsroom material (co-writer Stephen Koepp did time in the trenches) is what makes 'The Paper' sing.
Jason Bailey
It's clear right away that The Paper benefits substantially from Keaton's typically stellar turn as the central character... Dec 9, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's clear right away that The Paper benefits substantially from Keaton's typically stellar turn as the central character...
David Nusair
An overwrought, hysterical drama about the newspaper business that doesn't begin to compare to Hollywood's classics of the genre (The Front Page). The film has an absurdly frantic pace but it's so romantically naive and unsubtle that nothing registers Oct 6, 2006 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
An overwrought, hysterical drama about the newspaper business that doesn't begin to compare to Hollywood's classics of the genre (The Front Page). The film has an absurdly frantic pace but it's so romantically naive and unsubtle that nothing registers
Emanuel Levy
One of Ron Howard's most underrated films. Sep 28, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
One of Ron Howard's most underrated films.
Chuck O'Leary
A great ensemble cast Mar 23, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
A great ensemble cast
Clint Morris
Not a bad view of the inner-workings at a daily Jul 28, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
Not a bad view of the inner-workings at a daily
Jon Niccum
With this cast this should have been better.
Super Reviewer
Bernie: Well, you're in management now. If everybody loved you, you'd be doing something wrong. "A behind-the-line look at work, marriage, and other forms of combat." The Paper is a decent workplace, comedy/drama from Ron Howard that features a long and impressive cast. While this movie doesn't quite leap off the screen at you, it was still pretty good in it's own right. Normally Ron Howard tends to be pretty hit and miss, and with this one, it's right on the edge of being either hit or miss. It's not good enough to call it a clear success, but it is good enough to say that he didn't miss. Henry is an editor at the New York Sun newspaper and he has a busy day ahead of him. He has an interview at the Sentinel, which is offering him a job that would pay more. He also is trying figure out how to put together a worthy cover story after missing on yesterday's. He has to fight time, a pregnant wife, a colleague, and still manage to get the paper out on time and make sure he's running the correct story. While The Paper may come off as just another dull and unexciting workplace movie, I somehow found just enough enjoyment from it. It had just enough funny and smart parts to make up for a lot of dull and boring parts. The movie kind of plays like a lesser and lighter form of Broadcast News. I'm gonna give this one a mild recommendation. The movie is most worth it for the cast. Although no one is giving one of the best performances of their careers, this huge and star studded cast makes seeing this movie worth it. Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close, Randy Quaid, and many more faces you'll be sure to recognize.
The Paper ended up being much better than I thought. It takes a boring subject like news and made it interesting and also showed me the inside work of a newspaper, but its also at times very weird and does not realize what it is.
Great ensemble comedy-drama about a New York Daily tabloid newspaper with Michael Keaton as an editor who has a few hours to get the scoop on a murder and stop cost-conscious managing editor Glenn Close from printing a sensationalistic cover that implies two innocent youngsters are guilty.
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