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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "...with solid casting and acting, a worthy effort." (Read the full review...) 119 words, 11/18/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...globe-trotting and intelligent, serious and substantial, deliberately paced yet filled with mounting suspense.... intriguing as an examination of a marriage under pressure..." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 11/04/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Watts seems jittery and uneasy in the role and displays little chemistry with her ex-ambassador spouse (Sean Penn, in an unconvincing performance)." (Read the full review...) 73 words, 11/04/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "...gets you riled up all over again at a deeply unpatriotic abuse of power.... What's greater, the price of hiding the truth -- or telling it?" (Read the full review...) 228 words, 11/05/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Buried under the docu-drama surface is a vividly intense look at a political marriage under siege." (Read the full review...) 229 words, 10/29/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "More admirable than riveting... Its strength lies in presenting and exposing an account of political betrayal rather than exploring the human fallout." (Read the full review...) 564 words, 11/12/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...unusually bold for a fictionalization based on real events." (Read the full review...) 805 words, 11/04/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "What makes the film work -- in addition to the energy and agility of the performances and Mr. Liman's fast and fluid style -- is the precise counterpoint of public and domestic dramas." (Read the full review...) 1,083 words, 11/05/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...as suspenseful as any fictional thriller -- and considerably more tragic." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/05/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Strongly written... smartly directed by Doug Liman and forcefully acted... it seems to be doing everything right but still doesn't manage to leave you with a completely satisfied feeling." (Read the full review...) 943 words, 11/05/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "Liman 'urgently' shakes his camera and brings up tribal drumbeats on the soundtrack... It's like watching C-SPAN set to 'Survivor' theme music." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 11/05/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...absorbing... Watts conveys intelligence and a steely core... the movie is more about texture and surfaces and surface tensions. But it moves." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 11/05/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...wants to tell a lesser-known story, that of the toll taken on two people caught up in events mostly beyond their control." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 11/12/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...potent Hollywood melodrama... director Doug Liman works in high-efficiency mode, taking his tone from Plame's no-nonsense competence..." (Read the full review...) 654 words, 11/01/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...unusually bold for a fictionalization based on real events." (Read the full review...) 805 words, 11/04/10 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...the film's assertion of Plame and Wilson as real people rather than characters consists mostly of draining them of anything compelling..." (Read the full review...) 222 words, 11/03/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...never gets as angry as it might, despite the considerable outrage expended by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn in their roles as American patriots... But that's what makes it interesting." (Read the full review...) 809 words, 11/05/10 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...starts with thriller clichés and ends in sanctimonious preaching, but in between there are a couple of true things: a portrait of a marriage under stress, and a depiction of the arrogance of power that leaves a sharp after-burn." (Read the full review...) 605 words, 11/05/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...it's not dramatic, no matter how hard Liman tries to invest the proceedings with jittery energy.... never comes into its own as a movie. It just seems like old news." (Read the full review...) 235 words, 11/04/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a crackling political thriller that deftly navigates the knife edge between all-too-familiar recent history and more universal personal drama." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 11/05/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's a real-life spy drama. It's human drama. It's political drama. And it's engrossing, all around." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 11/05/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...riveting... Watts, as Plame, is the movie's soul, thoughtful and deep-revolving, admiring but suspicious of her husband's bluster." (Read the full review...) 589 words, 11/05/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...as spy thrillers go, more chilling than thrilling. But that's what makes it easy to relate to." (Read the full review...) 692 words, 11/19/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The most riveting Washington thriller since 'All the President's Men'.... grapples with larger truths about our divided government, and insights into a marriage strained by its partners' conflicting ideals." (Read the full review...) 141 words, 09/30/10 Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: MODERATE (cg) "...there's no sense of urgency in the storytelling, the film doesn't move toward its conclusion so much as things simply fall into place. At times, it is even dull..." (Read the full review...) 286 words, 11/05/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...a strident, condescending Hollywood melodrama." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 11/05/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: EXCELLENT (cg) "...part-thriller, part-family drama.... In the end, 'Fair Game' is about deciding whether or not to battle power, and how far to take the fight before it destroys your marriage." (Read the full review...) 404 words, 11/19/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...written as a drama and paced as a thriller, and it works just fine both ways.... Penn and Watts are electric together..." (Read the full review...) 500 words, 11/05/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "There's meat and spice enough for a good thriller in the story of Valerie Plame... But 'Fair Game,' a murky potboiler based on memoirs by both Plame and Wilson, makes a hash of these piquant ingredients." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 11/05/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a compelling, pertinent and scrupulously true political thriller in the honorable tradition of 'All the President's Men.' " (Read the full review...) 357 words, 11/19/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...feels like two very good movies mashed together to create merely a good one.... a study of a threatened marriage... the WMD cover-up..." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 11/18/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...such a brutal and personal testimony to the consequences of dirty politics that it often feels too ugly to be true." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 11/19/10
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...the film's assertion of Plame and Wilson as real people rather than characters consists mostly of draining them of anything compelling..." (Read the full review...) 222 words, 11/03/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: MODERATE (cg) "...lacks the juice and drive to give us the outrage we may have felt when we first learned about the story.... it lets down its guard so rarely that it seems cold, uncompromising, and inaccessible." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 11/08/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...potent... kudos to Liman and his cast for transforming the kind of political meat and potatoes Americans generally ignore into the kind of engaging entertainment they enjoy." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 11/04/10 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the film's heroes reveal themselves as flawed to an almost fatal extent, and messily, fascinatingly human." (Read the full review...) 347 words, 11/04/10 Bill Weber, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...balances its slow-boiling anger at the Bush administration's malfeasance in selling the 2003 invasion of Iraq by keeping an eye on engaging the general audience with Scenes from a Georgetown Marriage." (Read the full review...) 739 words, 11/01/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...it's not dramatic, no matter how hard Liman tries to invest the proceedings with jittery energy.... never comes into its own as a movie. It just seems like old news." (Read the full review...) 235 words, 11/04/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Director Doug Liman brings spy-flick panache to the film's globe-trotting missions and cut-throat bureaucracy, but A-list, Oscar-bait film productions can carry their own narrative distortions." (Read the full review...) 798 words, 11/03/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Doug Liman's direction is astute, the acting is first-rate, the script is smart and the story is an important one, it's also mysterious that the film is less than the sum of its well-crafted parts." (Read the full review...) 350 words, 11/05/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "What makes the film work -- in addition to the energy and agility of the performances and Mr. Liman's fast and fluid style -- is the precise counterpoint of public and domestic dramas." (Read the full review...) 1,083 words, 11/05/10 David Denby, New Yorker: GOOD "...an effective political melodrama... People just looking for a good movie might dismiss 'Fair Game' as too obvious a clash of good and evil, were it not for the quality of the actors playing the Wilsons." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 11/01/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Strongly written... smartly directed by Doug Liman and forcefully acted... it seems to be doing everything right but still doesn't manage to leave you with a completely satisfied feeling." (Read the full review...) 943 words, 11/05/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...a handsome mixed-bag drama..." (Read the full review...) 1,880 words, 11/05/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...does a respectably intelligent job of spinning the Valerie Plame affair into a sleek mainstream entertainment... But the overall conception feels too streamlined to maximize the impact of leads Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..." (Read the full review...) 1,029 words, 05/20/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "...might be one of the best spy movies ever, even if it contains little skullduggery." (Read the full review...) 898 words, 10/20/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Strongly written... smartly directed by Doug Liman and forcefully acted... it seems to be doing everything right but still doesn't manage to leave you with a completely satisfied feeling." (Read the full review...) 943 words, 11/05/10 Patrick Z. McGavin, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...an especially disappointing social conscious muckraking movie that yields a predictable litany of villains while seriously nullifying the dramatic interest.... The movie turns increasingly hysterical, strident and self-righteous." (Read the full review...) 1,043 words, 10/01/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "What makes the film work -- in addition to the energy and agility of the performances and Mr. Liman's fast and fluid style -- is the precise counterpoint of public and domestic dramas." (Read the full review...) 1,083 words, 11/05/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Doug Liman's direction is astute, the acting is first-rate, the script is smart and the story is an important one, it's also mysterious that the film is less than the sum of its well-crafted parts." (Read the full review...) 350 words, 11/05/10
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