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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1   C "In reality Man Of The Year is one half The Robin Williams Show and one half dour thriller involving a rigged election and the evils of electronic voting machines. The second half nearly obliterates the film."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 2/10 "Levinson has gone from Wag the Dog to "Screw the Pooch"."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens D "Man has the kind of dizzying tonal changes that makes one wonder if a P.A. should've administered a breathalyzer test on Levinson during production."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Ellie's the locus for the film's instability and lack of direction, while the guys get to tromp around in its more explicitly comic terrain."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "...remains virtually intolerable throughout its overlong running time due primarily to star Robin Williams' relentless mugging and writer/director Barry Levinson's inordinately mediocre screenplay."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "The comedy is drab and predictable. The satirical flourishes are so soft that they are hardly worth mentioning. The thrills are diffused by tonal shifts working against them."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "It's more Jay Leno than Jon Stewart, and there's no way that's a compliment."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 0.5/4 "So haphazardly fails to recognize the ironies of its own failings that it unwittingly makes George W. Bush funnier...when he's TRYING to be funny."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 1.5/4 "[A] piece of pithy political pap. Sadly, [this] Man has all the biting promise of a crooked two-bit hack accepting a corporate kickback at a Chucky Cheese restaurant."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "A hybrid of so many parts that it would be unwieldy even if it were executed very well. But as it happens, it isn't."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A political comedy with spunk that capitalizes on several bizarre trends in contemporary American politics."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Man of the Year makes telling points and has a lot to say, but it loses its voice along with its consistency around the mid-way point, and that will likely make it an also-ran in the box office race."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Reminded me of an octogenarian circus spinner. While grounded, she looks terrific, but the moment she tries to elevate herself, she loses her teeth."   Light Views   John Larsen 2/10 "Would make a terrific half-baked double bill with American Dreamz."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "The good news about this movie is that it goes for the jocular just often enough to be satisfying."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 2/5 "Man of the Year, the weaker brother of the Wag the Dog and Good Morning Vietnam polital satire family, relies heavily on conceptual humour and Robin Williams' shenanigans to carry the boneless plot through."   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis "It didn’t know if it wanted to be a satirical comedy or a political thriller."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel B "...isn't as biting as "Wag the Dog" was, nor as prescient, but it throwsan issue into the ring as it entertains its audience."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Packaged as a rollicking political comedy, writer-director Barry Levinson's much-ballyhooed reunion with Robin Williams wobbles unsteadily between broad humor and paranoid thrills. The result is a bland muddle."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[L]acks all conviction in its would-be insurgent attitudes and lacks any courage in seeing through to a tough conclusion the political realities it pretends to attack."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "I think I recall a few of the jokes from the Ford administration. Which makes sense because as irreverent and subversive as it wants to be, it is just bland."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "There's nothing about Man of the Year that's quite as fantastic as its depiction of moribund Saturday Night Live as culturally and politically relevant."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager C "The opening narration by Christopher Walken starts sucking the life out of the film before it gets a chance to gain any momentum."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 5/10 "All the audience can do with this DOA comedy is wait for their next chance to see Robin Williams do another stand-up routine, providing a precious break in an otherwise tedious film."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 1.5/5 "ignore the propaganda this picture is peddling."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "It's a comedy, a political thriller, a love story: Barry Levinson's Man of the Year tries to be all things to all people and fails on every count -- a little like the generic, ineffectual politicians it's pretending to excoriate."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "Despite Levinson's split purpose, making it into a 'dramedy,' it's timely and thought-provoking."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "Its screenplay needs not another run through the typewriter, but a first run through the shredder."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1