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Bobby (2006) Rank 3 Reviews
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Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)
The film's impact and poignancy are undeniable. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)
The New Yorker (David Denby)
Estevez has made a vague gesture at a large, metaphoric structure without having the dramatic means to achieve it. His choreography of the panic and misery in the hotel after the shooting is impressive, and some of the actors do fine in their brief roles. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at The New Yorker (David Denby)
LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
The only character who emerges as more than an ideological mouthpiece, and nearly saves the movie, is the Ambassador's resident hairstylist, who masks her faded beauty with a thick coat of eye shadow and an overteased hairdo. I kept wondering who this ...read the complete Bobby movie review at LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Though Estevez's achievement doesn't quite live up to his ambitions -- the climax of Altman's "Nashville" (1975) evokes the same brutal loss of innocence to more shattering effect -- it still contains enough powerful moments to balance the weaker ...read the complete Bobby movie review at TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Premiere (Scott Warren)
Alll in all, however, Estevez has pulled together the best political drama, fiction or otherwise, in recent memory. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Premiere (Scott Warren)
Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
Newsweek (David Ansen)
You don't have to have lived through the period to find this wrenching. And you don't have to doubt Estevez's sincerity to find it emotionally opportunistic. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Newsweek (David Ansen)
Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Bobby, even if it suffers from a few silly scenes, gets more right than it does wrong. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
So keenly felt and so deeply imagined I couldn't help but be moved, even grateful for its bleeding-heart nostalgia. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Variety (Deborah Young)
Emilio Estevez's Bobby is a passionate outcry for peace and justice in America that becomes deeply involving by the final climactic scene. ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Variety (Deborah Young)
Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
The movie isn't about Kennedy; rather, Kennedy is the sun around which all the other planets of the film revolve. And like some epic Louis B. Mayer picture from the Thirties, Bobby has a thousand stars in its galaxy, some of them great (Fishburne, ...read the complete Bobby movie review at Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Tommaso Tocci)
New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
This is simply too vast a task for a filmmaker as inexperienced as Estevez. Compared with, say, Robert Altman's similar but far more complex "Nashville," Bobby mostly comes off as a Hollywood public service announcement: passionate, righteous and ...read the complete Bobby movie review at New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Despite its flaws, its intriguing premise leaves us haunted by thoughts of "What ...read the complete Bobby movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Empire Movies (Brendan Cullin)
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