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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90TV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsTV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsStunningly cinematic and audacious on every level, writer/director Tim Robbins's look at the collision of the Depression-era art world and politics may well be a masterpiece.
- 80TNT RoughCutTNT RoughCutEntertaining and educational.
- 78Austin ChronicleRussell SmithAustin ChronicleRussell SmithCommands respect as mainstream filmmaking with more of an agenda than just pimping cinematic junk food to the brain-dead masses.
- 75Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanIt's packed with such passion, humor, fine acting in small roles - there are no big ones - and vitality in the storytelling that the lesson comes across entertainingly.
- 75Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrBrings the '30s vividly to the screen.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthySucceeds far more often than not in delivering a credible, kaleidoscopic portrait of creative, and often famous, individuals.
- 63San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannWildly ambitious, unwieldy epic.
- 60Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanHistorical forces and famous ghosts jostle past each other in this evocation of mid-1930s New York like harried commuters at Grand Central Station.
- 60SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorObviously influenced by the style of Robert Altman's multi-character extravaganzas, Robbins has seized on this incident as the centerpiece in a carnival about the conflicts among art, politics and commerce.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIt's an interesting and likably ambitious movie with an ensemble of mostly engaging character vignettes, but, sadly, it misses its mark.