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Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...clever. Gibney not only reveals that Spitzer saw call girl Ashley Dupre just once, which contradicts the dubious fame she achieved, but he also finds the escort who was his real favorite..." (Read the full review...) 778 words, 11/11/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "Sex, hubris, money, politics, black socks, conspiracy... deepens the saga of New York's former governor and attorney general into the paradoxical morality play it really was." (Read the full review...) 84 words, 11/05/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a fascinating look at a golden boy's fall from grace, but there's too much familiarity in the scandal for it to be truly remarkable." (Read the full review...) 782 words, 11/11/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...a depressing lesson in power politics.... an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level." (Read the full review...) 988 words, 11/05/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "Spitzer, speaking more than a year after he stepped down, makes for a complex figure." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 11/05/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD "...a sad, disturbing and in some ways tragic tale that in its lurid combination of sex and politics, banal hypocrisy and bare-knuckles power, seems very much an American story of our times." (Read the full review...) 922 words, 11/12/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "Gibney is perhaps missing the obvious: If everybody hated Spitzer, it's because Spitzer thought constant attack was a saleable brand. His steamroller ways got himself flattened." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 11/05/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...eventually concludes that the former state Attorney General was a Wall Street reformer who foresaw today's economic crisis but was brought down by rich and powerful enemies..." (Read the full review...) 313 words, 11/12/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "Spitzer, blames only himself... But folks, he was reamed." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 11/01/10 Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...state-of-the-art American political circus." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 11/19/10 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...gripping... makes a persuasive case that the former governor may have been brought down not just by his penis, but by his deep-pocketed enemies..." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 11/03/10 Kate Taylor, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "If you forgive the showiness of filmmaker Gibney's style and the long windup, you will be amply rewarded..." (Read the full review...) 639 words, 11/19/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "The doc's talking heads are fascinating, including creepy Home Depot founder Ken Langone and weasely AIG CEO Hank Greenberg." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 11/18/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...smoothly recounts how Spitzer rose through the legal ranks to become one of the most lionized and loathed attorneys general in New York history..." (Read the full review...) 740 words, 11/12/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...speaks plenty of truth - about politics, power, human nature - even if you don't buy into the hit-job hypothesis." (Read the full review...) 551 words, 11/12/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "To wander off into conspiracy territory as a way of excusing Spitzer's blunders seems cowardly. And hiring an actress to play his favorite call girl is cheating." (Read the full review...) 477 words, 11/26/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...full of harsh truths and bitter ironies, the tale of a man who came to believe in his own infallibility." (Read the full review...) 782 words, 11/26/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It takes Gibney almost two hours to build his own argument regarding the airing of Spitzer's laundry, and, having watched it twice, that length is inexplicable." (Read the full review...) 956 words, 11/12/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...compelling, well-researched and features Spitzer himself assessing his downfall, but folks I've mentioned the film to seem kind of Spitzered-out: He slept with hookers; he got caught; he resigned." (Read the full review...) 465 words, 12/10/10 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...offers a few provocative twists..." (Read the full review...) 313 words, 11/19/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...feels less like a hard-hitting documentary and more like a mild entertainment, a story that's always engaging but which we've heard a few times already." (Read the full review...) 401 words, 11/19/10 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "The motives and means for a political hit job were plentiful, and the film presents a believable case for such a conspiracy." (Read the full review...) 253 words, 11/19/10
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...gripping... makes a persuasive case that the former governor may have been brought down not just by his penis, but by his deep-pocketed enemies..." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 11/03/10 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Was the Gov a victim of a political hit?" (Read the full review...) 178 words, 11/11/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...balances a thorough history of Spitzer's turbulent (but frequently triumphant) career with a fascinating account of the big-money prostitution rings that serve many New York athletes, Wall Street executives, politicians, and other elites." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 11/04/10 Andrew Schenker, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...hones in on a provocative and highly plausible thesis: that the investigation into the prostitution scandal that brought down former New York State governor Eliot Spitzer was a political hit job..." (Read the full review...) 780 words, 10/31/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "The doc's talking heads are fascinating, including creepy Home Depot founder Ken Langone and weasely AIG CEO Hank Greenberg." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 11/18/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "Say what you will about Eliot Spitzer, he's a marvelous subject for a documentary, and Alex Gibney has made a film worthy of him..." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 11/12/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...a depressing lesson in power politics.... an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level." (Read the full review...) 988 words, 11/05/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a sad, disturbing and in some ways tragic tale that in its lurid combination of sex and politics, banal hypocrisy and bare-knuckles power, seems very much an American story of our times." (Read the full review...) 922 words, 11/12/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...an elegantly told New York fable about a smart, arrogant guy who made a whole lot of the wrong kinds of enemies.... plays a lot like a murky, gripping political thriller..." (Read the full review...) 1,312 words, 11/03/10
John Anderson, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...plays like a political thriller... For all the information here, Gibney is unusual among investigative documentarians in that he never forgets he's making cinema." (Read the full review...) 941 words, 09/11/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...has all the ingredients for a potboiler: greed, corruption, sex, power, overweening ambition and jaw-dropping hubris." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 09/10/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a sad, disturbing and in some ways tragic tale that in its lurid combination of sex and politics, banal hypocrisy and bare-knuckles power, seems very much an American story of our times." (Read the full review...) 922 words, 11/12/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...way beyond a portrait of a politician... riveting... provides an extreme close-up of the intersection of political bloodsport, power and greed." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 11/30/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...a depressing lesson in power politics.... an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level." (Read the full review...) 988 words, 11/05/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "Say what you will about Eliot Spitzer, he's a marvelous subject for a documentary, and Alex Gibney has made a film worthy of him..." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 11/12/10
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