Reviews

I'm a fan...like a huge fan. I've watched everything.

I lean towards the bleeding edge of kafkaesque lynchian weirdness and just outright genius laughter.

The Larry Sanders show is basically proto-30 Rock, except way WAY better.

It's extremely topical, but not due to Larry's monologues, but because of the guests he is booking. The episode with Bobkat and Regis is especially poignant television.

IMHO, should go down with a very few 10/10s, like Dick van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Chapelle's Show, Frisky Dingo - seriously high level comedy writing..it's no wonder it wasn't more popular, it's some of the smartest writing to come from the 1990s, including both TV and film.

This show is grossly underrated on here. Just the writing and dialogue alone put it above an 8. Sorkin knows what he's doing and he hasn't lost his spark.

I think perhaps some of the makeup choices in certain scenes may have been off-putting to some people, but to say that this show was miscast is a gross disservice. Everyone did a fantastic job, and JK Simmons as William Frawley might be one of the greatest castings in recent memory.

Amazing writing, great cast, and quality set-pieces. I'm extremely baffled at the 6.6 rating this has currently. It's at least an 8.

It's hilarious to me that people can give a 9+ score to a show that goes off the rails this much.

Just because season 1 was basically flawless doesn't mean the entire series is this great. It's not. It ends up being limitlessly disappointing.

Aside from the actor portraying the Justice at the beginning of the movie, all of the performances are phenomenal, especially Sam Shepard who plays a very convincing alcoholic, and Robert Culp who puts an exclamation point on the end of a legendary career playing characters that all informed his performance as the corrupt president here. John Lithgow is a great backdrop for Denzel's character's journalism career and Stanley Tucci's evil : words-spoken ratio is off the charts. It is rare to get so good a villain with so few words.

Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington have great chemistry, and you really root for them to win. There are plenty of suspenseful scenes throughout helped by great performances from all the supporting cast.

It's a great political thriller that includes a lot of important social commentary. It's surprising how underrated this film is, and I think time will show it to be appreciated more.

9/10 - One of Pakula's best

The idea of it mattering more what you do with the truth than the pursuit of it is a clever one, but instead of shining a light on prejudice, bias, and arrogance, it actually encourages all of these things in the audience by confirming all of those things in the end instead of destroying them.

We're led to hate everyone who deserves hating right off the bat, and that never changes. What's worse, the people we're led to find innocuous only become more so as the story progresses. In short nobody grows and it ends up being a somewhat terrible mystery. It gets points for twists and turns, but none of those happen because of changes in the characters behavior or outlook. Johnston put all of the characters in their place from the get-go and never let them even wiggle slightly.

The acting saves this movie. It is definitely worth watching just for the magnificent performances by everyone involved. It is just sad that they had to 'pay the pound' for Johnston's gross soapboxing, while the penny was the movie and mystery itself.

It's interesting that there was an attempt to make fun of both SJWs and Nazis in this, while it so blatantly implied that rich entitled Americans are everything bad and illegal immigrants are everything good and hard-working. Such an unnecessary subtext in a murder mystery. especially considering it doesn't change throughout the movie...it's actually the one thing that's consistent.

This film is 'high art.' There aren't many directors willing to walk down this lane, but because Tarantino is a master of his craft, he does so elegantly.

At first I just thought this was the most boring, disjointed documentary I'd ever seen on a subject so thoroughly interesting. Then finally once I realized this was sponsored by Lexus, everything made sense.

This is the bitter end, I'm afraid. We are now in a world where companies can hire 'documentary teams' to create advertisements disguised as art and not only get away with it

Shame.