Bobby (2006) Critic Reviews

Why such a structurally scattered movie should hang together at all is a mystery. That it does more than that, that it works brilliantly, is a miracle, or at the very least the product of unquantifiable causes.Read the full review

Bobby, even if it suffers from a few silly scenes, gets more right than it does wrong.Read the full review

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 full review

Despite its flaws, its intriguing premise leaves us haunted by thoughts of "What if?"Read the full review

When you hear his (Robert Kennedy's) patient, meditative speeches, from which every note of demagoguery or pandering has been purged, you glimpse the film Mr. Estevez set out to make -- the one you may wish you were watching.Read the full review

Whether or not Bobby Kennedy was the man his supporters believed him to be, the film makes a persuasive case that something important in America was silenced when he was gunned down.Read the full review

Bobby coasts along on a dread, and sorrow, it doesn't earn.Read the full review

The film has virtually nothing to say about the man, or about much of anything, really. It's a sketchbook trying to pass as a tapestry.Read the full review

The resulting finished project is a series of skits performed by famous people doing favors for a friend, and it works about as well as one might expect from such an endeavor.Read the full review