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(1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1   8/10 "Esteves's curious multi-strand film carries us to a quietly devastating conclusion."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens C "Star power alone pushes Bobby to a point where it's a comfortable failure,"   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 "has so many storylines that it becomes near impossible to give a flip about any particular one."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin "While these many plots vary in effectiveness and banality, the finale%u2014Kennedy's arrival the hotel and the violence that follows%u2014is undeniably moving."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "The ensemble structure of 'Bobby' becomes problematic, because some the stories are clumsy and dull."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 3.5/4 "That other Bobby (Altman) would be very proud..."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...suffers from a distinctly uneven vibe..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Bobby doesn't get everything right but when Estevez allows his images and the reality of his characters do the talking, the film works with indelible cogency."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B- "The characters are fictional but their hopes and dreams are real enough, and every role is well-acted, even by lightweights like Lohan and Kutcher."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "In the film's most prophetic bit of unintentional hilarity, Estevez literally walks off his own movie and passes the torch directly to Sirhan Sirhan for mop-up duty."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 2/4 "...[a] notoriously uneven political melodrama. In short, Bobby deserved more than what it got from its sprawling yet cluttered scope of transparent convictions."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "An earnest film that shows an advance in Estevez's filmmaking technique, but one that--given its setting--seems curiously shallow, even trivial."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A poignant and heart-rending drama about the hopes, dreams, anger, and righteous indignation of those who saw in Robert Kennedy a catalyst for justice, change, and peace in America."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "In the movie business, there's no such thing as 'truth in titling.' If there was, Bobby would be called A Bunch of Boring, No-Name, Cookie-Cutter Characters."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "Bobby wishes it were Robert Altman's Nashville."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen C "does capture the mournful finale well enough to overlook the weaknesses of Estevez's script"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit "Cloying, but at other times, quite emotional, especially when Estevez draws less-than-subtle parallels between 1968 and 2006."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "If passionate intensity were enough, this movie would be an Oscar contender. As it is, his reach exceeds his grasp, and we're left with Ship of Fools as done on Love Boat."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards C+ "...while Estevez succeeds in catching some individually touching scenes, others are overwritten, phoney and irrelevant."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Emilio Estevez's lament for the lost ideals of the ’60s draws heavily from the Robert Altman playbook."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh D "While it includes excerpts of some RFK speeches, Bobby provides no insight into the man and his politics, choosing instead to flit among the insipid soap opera storylines."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[S]ublime... so simple and so luminously powerful, so beautifully capturing the emotions of a moment in time..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/4 "What I resent most about Bobby is that it's so obvious that it has no ability to be meaningful. It's like making a movie about how the ocean is wet. Who doesn't know that?"   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D+ "A preachy, liberal-courting slog."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3.5/5 "Sprawling and fragmented, this multi-strand film comes together with a surprising punch in the end."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "While the movie is about one of our great national tragedies, it is not without hope."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 7/10 "A dynamite ensemble cast gives a good try but writer/director Emilio Estevez bites off more than he can script in a too ambitious Robert Altman experiment gone mediocre"   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson "The archival Kennedy clips aside, the excited radiance of these young characters' faces (and many of them are just extras) may be the best thing about Bobby."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "Poignant yet fragmented - with trivial, star-studded subplots - it unabashedly idealizes RFK, presenting him in an almost saintly light."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "A Crash-like roundelay of desperately manufactured bathos that covers the entire spectrum of miserable plotting and characterization."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1