Cradle Will Rock Critic Reviews
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Rock actually rocks out as one of the year's most purely entertaining movies (just keep thinking: Bill Murray as a ventriloquist).Read the full review
Brings the '30s vividly to the screen.Read the full review
It needs a study guide, and viewing "Citizen Kane" might be a good place to start.Read the full review
Robbins the agitprop celebrity may be blowin' in the wind, but Robbins, the son of a folksinger, knows how to get audiences clapping along.Read the full review
Its nervy decision to cut as wide a swath as possible through one of the most exciting and meaningful periods of our history have created something that's impossible not to both applaud and enjoy.Read the full review
Succeeds far more often than not in delivering a credible, kaleidoscopic portrait of creative, and often famous, individuals.Read the full review
Wildly ambitious, unwieldy epic.Read the full review
Although Robbins might have drawn some of these characters with less obviousness and more satirical bite, he ably keeps this lively, complicated film on track.Read the full review
Cradle Will Rock is left in mid-rock, as it were, its energy squandered, its sense of history confused, its sound and fury ultimately signifying nothing.Read the full review
