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OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh |
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| "Good Night, and Good Luck. isn't memorable, even in the short run, because it creates a desire for information that Clooney has no intention of fulfilling." |
| Blogcritics.org |
| Alan Dale |
| "proves that it is still possible in the cinema, if not in television, to inform without being boring and entertain without condescending." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
A- | "Good Night, And Good Luck. is a labor of love that resonates extremely well in today's political climate." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
A- | "Good Night, and Good Luck introduces Clooney for the first time as an exceptional filmmaker, interested in challenging material and outstanding performances" |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
B+ | "Strathairn is riveting." |
| AboutFilm.com |
| Carlo Cavagna |
4/5 | "Clooney and Co. have given us a civics lesson. But you could hardly ask for a better one." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
A+ | "George Clooney knocks the ball out of the park with his second directorial effort..." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Shot in exquisite black and white, the film is partly reverential, partly probing." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/5 | "George Clooney has managed to make a movie that demonstrates the power and the limitations of the press and manages to entertain in the process." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
B+ | "Clooney’s second film as a director is ambitious and brilliant, but ultimately proves somewhat dry and inaccessible." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
A | "A passionately committed, superbly acted and smartly presented tribute to iconic CBS newscaster
Edward R. Murrow." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
| "A compact ninety minutes that wastes nothing, this film is as good -- and as relevant - as it gets." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Donald J. Levit |
4/10 | "bez obzira na plemenite namjere svojih tvoraca, ipak ne zaslu%u017Euje "Oscara", jer je iznevjerio visoke standarde objektivnosti koje pripisuje svom junaku." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Dragan Antulov |
2/4 | "Isn't nearly as hard-hitting as it wants to be or as penetrating as it should." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
A+ | "The most engaging, gripping and compelling movie of the year" |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
3/5 | "Un valioso testimonio sobre una época controversial (con inquietantes referencias a la actual política de Estados Unidos), filmado en extraordinario blanco y negro y con estupenda labor de David Strathairn." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "A fantastically compact little film, with barely an extraneous moment." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "As Cassius infamously stated - “'he fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves.' But somehow it sounds more potent coming from Edward R. Murrow." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B- | "George Clooney's sophomore directorial effort comes off as authentic but awfully thin and uneventful." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/4 | "Es un drama humano, cuyo impacto es resaltado por la veracidad de los hechos exhibidos en la pantalla." |
| Doncinema.com |
| Flavio J. Arosemena |
3.5/4 | "...an ambitiously earnest and well-informed biopic. Clooney’s Good Night, And Good Luck is perceptive, manipulating, and cleverly crafted..." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
A- | "A stylish, absorbing account of an episode in American journalistic history that has as much to teach us today as it did Murrow's audience half a century ago." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/5 | "A stirring tribute to television journalist Edward R. Murrow's courage and conviction in a dark period of American history." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3.5/4 | "Part docu-drama, part thriller, and part cautionary tale, the movie offers something to everyone who craves more than escapism from the cinema." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck has the visual feel of a chamber drama, with the majority of its action taking place in a handful of offices in the CBS building in New York, but the emotional gravitas of a morality play." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
2.5/4 | "more interested using the movie medium as a pulpit from which to pontificate...political beliefs rather than in telling a dramatically engaging story" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
4/4 | "George Clooney makes a bold move and raises tough issues in the meticulously recreation of a seminal chapter in television history." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "A piece of urgent nostalgia." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
6/10 | "If you enjoy that sort of thing, this one makes its points, short and sweet, and looks good, while doing so." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
4/4 | "Good Night is not your average historical recreation. It doesn't dumb-down its story or its characters with needless explanation for the benefit of an under-educated audience." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
5/5 | "One of this year's most powerful films." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
A- | "Regular NPR listeners, PBS watchers, and 1950's nostalgia buffs will love George Clooney's tightly constructed ... homage to crusading newscaster pioneer Edward R. Murrow" |
| Old School Reviews |
| John A. Nesbit |
9/10 | "Today, history records Edward R. Murrow as a towering journalist and Senator McCarthy as a sniveling tyrant. Don't you love it when history gets it right." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "The film tackles a lot of weighty issues, and never once goes down for the count. It’s smart, engaging and vital." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
| "It has wit, drama, and an urgent immediacy that makes your heart pound and your skin tingle as surely as any thriller." |
| FilmFreak.be |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
5/5 | "Both a stirring tribute to Ed Murrow and a bold polemic about the state of journalism today. And gorgeous on every level.
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| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
'3/5' | "The crusading spirit of director Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg) lives on in director George Clooney's matter-of-fact but ardent dramatization." |
| Film-Forward.com |
| Kent Turner |
3.5/4.0 | "... a timely reminder of the consequences of failing to balance national security with personal liberties... (believability is) what really comes through on the screen..." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3/4 | "Dense, direct and digression-free." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
A- | "Strathairn is just perfect, giving a contained performance that fairly vibrates with his need to elucidate politics for the American people." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
A- | "Good Night, and Good Luck. is a riveting newsroom entertainment that beckons [Murrow's] successors to follow his lead." |
| TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
9/10 | " Director George Clooney gives us a very fine film and David Strathairn gives a superior performance as Edward R. Murrow. The only misstep is in the overuse of jazz interludes." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3/4 | "Standing up to bullies is hard, and not everyone who does stays standing" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Oh, this is an angry movie, calm and collected on the surface and seethed with reeled-in rage underneath." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/5 | "Strathairn gives a sly, quiet, unfussy performance as Murrow that sneaks up on you." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "While the harmfulness of McCarthyism is a significant part of the film, it approaches the subject by examining the power of the media." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
A | "I love this movie so much I wanted to go up and hug the screen when it was over." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
3.5/4 | "The film's bedrock is Strathairn's performance, a masterpiece of calibrated dignity and self-doubt." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "... mais do que um filme interessante e eficiente; é uma lição cívica como aquelas que o próprio Murrow se encarregava de ministrar em seu programa." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
1/5 | "A travesty." |
| Film Threat |
| Phil Hall |
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OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh |
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