70
New York Magazine (Vulture) by
This entertaining but rather peculiar movie asks extraordinary questions, and I wish it were better equipped to give the answers.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
A slack, tepid picture stuck in a no man's land between satire and drama.
90
I expected to laugh; I didn't expect to be moved.
90
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Guilty, deftly orchestrated fun.
70
The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell
It's a movie struggling with its own identity crisis, and with the obvious constraints created by its subject matter.
90
It's as wise and funny and revealing as anything ever created by Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
70
An intelligent and very funny satire about the bloody game of American politics.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
An intelligent movie that portrays the mighty without reverence.
70
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
The result is glib, often funny, sometimes bumpy, and ultimately depressing.
80
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
Its palette isn't primary at all: It's full of secondary shadings.