Good Night, and Good Luck Critic Reviews

The only things missing from making this showdown worthy of a Western is Murrow's sheriff's badge, a dusty street and maybe a spittoon for McCarthy's infamous invectives.Read the full review

The other key character is McCarthy himself, and Clooney uses a masterstroke: He employs actual news footage of McCarthy, who therefore plays himself.Read the full review

He [Clooney] has found a cogent subject, an urgent set of ideas and a formally inventive, absolutely convincing way to make them live on screen.Read the full review

Couldn't be more unlikely, more unfashionable -- or more compelling.Read the full review

A puzzle: a hermetically sealed period piece so intensely relevant to our current state of affairs that it takes your breath away.Read the full review

In ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.Read the full review

Like other actors who successfully create a cinematic doppelganger of a real person, Strathairn gets under the character's skin.Read the full review

Good Night, and Good Luck has a small-scale time-capsule fascination, yet its hermeticism is really a form of moral caution -- a way of keeping the issues neat, the liberal idealism untainted.Read the full review

A vital chapter of mid-century history is brought to life concisely, with intimacy and matter-of-fact artistry.Read the full review