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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

The story collapses like a bad tip to Liz Smith.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

40

The movie's stock 60's nostalgia is annoyingly facile. In glibly evoking heroes like Kennedy and King, the movie succumbs to the same mindless name-dropping it purports to decry.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 8 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

Sometimes incisive but finally overbaked drama.
Full Review » 9 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

An expired shelf life is integral to the movie's downbeat charm.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

It was filmed in and around the World Trade Center, and the subsequent cuts, reshoots and sleights of hand designed to obscure that fact prove devastating.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Trashy and lurid as this movie is, it's certainly not boring, and it keeps its star in hog heaven throughout.
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Rooney Variety (Top Critic)

The screenplay is taut and intelligent, sizzling with enough sharp dialogue and dark humor to coast over its flaws.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Almost as much fun as reading Page Six.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

Watchable but dramatically scattered.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

Dropped into this ocean of bathos, even Al can't tread water -- at that precise moment, he and his performance drown.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

The picture has a lax, sleepy vibe: There's never anything taut or electric about it.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Ranks with Sweet Smell of Success in its ruthless portrayal of the publicity business.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

An ambitious, high-minded flop that wants to do good in the world, a failure with a pedigree, if you will.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Empire Magazine

80

Full Review » 6 years ago
Film Threat

60

Full Review » 6 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Steven Snyder Zertinet Movies

100

Full Review » 8 years ago
Matt Brunson Creative Loafing

50

[Starts] off like a B-version of Sweet Smell of Success before ending like a C-version of The Parallax View.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews

After watching this depressing film, I felt as tired as Al Pacino's character looked.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

50

Pacino unleashes every trick in his actor's bag... The accent alone batters us into the back of the theater, making us want to go home.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle

50

The movie is weighted down with an excess of plot points that fail to coalesce.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Antonia Quirke This is London

Full Review » 8 years ago