Good Night, and Good Luck Reviews
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The only things missing from making this showdown worthy of a Western is Murrow's sheriff's badge, a dusty street and maybe a spittoon for McCarthy's infamous invectives.
Read the full reviewThe other key character is McCarthy himself, and Clooney uses a masterstroke: He employs actual news footage of McCarthy, who therefore plays himself.
Read the full reviewHe [Clooney] has found a cogent subject, an urgent set of ideas and a formally inventive, absolutely convincing way to make them live on screen.
Read the full reviewCouldn't be more unlikely, more unfashionable -- or more compelling.
Read the full reviewA puzzle: a hermetically sealed period piece so intensely relevant to our current state of affairs that it takes your breath away.
Read the full reviewLike other actors who successfully create a cinematic doppelganger of a real person, Strathairn gets under the character's skin.
Read the full reviewIn ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.
Read the full reviewGood Night, and Good Luck has a small-scale time-capsule fascination, yet its hermeticism is really a form of moral caution -- a way of keeping the issues neat, the liberal idealism untainted.
Read the full reviewMany movies these days are too long; this one, at 90 minutes, feels too short. That's because its purpose is so sharply defined: a tight close-up, in black and white, of a single, seminal moment -- a black and white moment -- in American history, and American journalism.
Read the full reviewA passionate and rousing piece of filmmaking--a civics lesson with the punch of a good melodrama.
Read the full reviewA vital chapter of mid-century history is brought to life concisely, with intimacy and matter-of-fact artistry.
Read the full reviewAn entertaining slice of American political and cultural history.
Read the full reviewMoviegoers who know their American political history will respond to the film's immediacy and forgive the film's tight focus and narrow view. Anyone hoping for an entertaining drama about newsmen and politics along the lines of "All the President's Men" will be disappointed.
Read the full reviewWhere "Quiz Show" elevated its story to the level of Shakespearean tragedy, Clooney's film is too lightweight to reach such tragic heights. In part, it's too short--at 90 minutes, including musical interludes and lengthy monologues taken whole-cloth from the historical record, Good Night breezes by effortlessly when it really needs time and space to build up to appropriately epic dimensions.
Read the full reviewThe film, therefore, is like a child's view of these events, untroubled by complexity, hungry for myth and simplicity.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 80
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great movie overall
"This is an excellent movie. I never saw it in theatres and I am really glad that I finally got to see it. I feel that at the end, it was cut off with some loose ends, but the end of the movie was extremely powerful. It was a great film and was beautifully done."
wasted
"I own a lot of dvd's,some are really bad,but this movie was so bad I threw it in the trash immediately after watching,I would not even keep it between Eurotrip and Alexander!!!"
Left wing garbage
"Another feeble attempt by far left wing Clooney to restore CBS news to something we should believe like we did in the 50's. Hollywood thinks we will swallow this thinly vailed liberal garbage and forgive the major media for their biasis. This movie had no story, thank God it was only 90 minutes. Clooney must have something on the acadamy to win an Oscar for this trash."
Vanilla Papers
"McCarthy was a drunk and many other things, but in all fairness, his accusations were not far off the mark. I would suggest that before we all bow to the shrine being erected to Mr. Murrow, we first all read the Vanilla Papers.These were the records of the KGB that Mr. Clooney failed to mention as a post script in this very good movie. Sadly, a number of the people McCarthy accused of being Communists in high places were, according to the people who would have known; the KGB. Oh well, all that is important in Hollywood is sales, not truth. Good movie, but somewhat off the mark."
Clooney the Diva
"Clooney's best actor award should be when he played Roseanne's boss on THE ROSEANNE SHOW. He didn't think he was the hottest thing since Marilyn Monroe. Now he's nothing but a pawn for the ultra left wing polical party and uses it to try to win awards and make a name for himself. He can't act. He is far from good looking, and needs a dose of humility. His acting is just not good. sorry george."
SO-CALLED "REVIEWS"
"Notice how most of the right wing conservative negative "reviewers" of George Clooney's excellent film haven't even seen it! LOL. Typical of the brainwashed, ignorant, morally bankrupt hypocrites who voted for our current administration. Edward R. Murrow- where are you now?"
What the press should be like now!
"Probably one of the very best movies I've ever seen"
GREAT MOVIE
"THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST WELL WRITTEN MOVIES I HAVE SEEN IN SO MANY YEARS. THANK YOU GEORGE CLOONEY FOR BRINGING BACK THE PAST TO THIS OLDER GENERATION. PLEASE BRING TO THE SCREEN MORE OF THESE MARVALOUS MOVIES. I PROMISE YOU THE THEATERS WILL BE PACKED LIKE IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS. MY HUSBAND AND I USE TO WATCH EDWARD R. MORROW RELIGIOUSLY, NO MATTER WHAT ELSE WAS ON THE TV. YOU YOUNGER GENERATION...SEE THIS MOVIE. I RECOMMENDED IT TO MY TWO SONS AGES 51 AND 40. THEY BOTH AGREE WITH THEIR FATHER AND I."
a little better than average
"although i am glad this got nominated for a oscar, i think walk the line is just a little better. although murrow was acted perfectly i had to give this a 3 stars. over a mixed bag"
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