Absolute Power Critic Reviews

Devolves into such utter ludicrousness, the best response (other than avoiding the thing in the first place) is to laugh.Read the full review

Eastwood directs a sensible-looking genre film with smooth expertise, but its plot is quietly berserk.Read the full review

A fairly routine thriller that gets high marks as a result of tight pacing and top-notch acting.Read the full review

A murky, often confusing story riddled with half-hearted performances, erratic characters, and too many cliched lines and situations.Read the full review

Sleek and satisfying....Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.Read the full review

A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top.Read the full review

Eastwood gutsily stages the extended opening slowly and methodically... [But u]nintentional yuks litter an otherwise somber political thriller adapted from David Baldacci's novel.Read the full review

Glum and depersonalized, as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. [14 Feb 1997, p. 39]Read the full review

Promises to speed up the pacemakers of grumpy old Republicans with its ruthless indictment of the unzipped presidency.Read the full review