Swing Vote (2008) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Swing Vote is a satire that's afraid to satirize.Read the full review
The movie is a genial comedy, but it has significant undertones. Like some of Frank Capra's pictures.Read the full review
Costner (who's also a producer) plays to his middle-aged strengths in a role that exaggerates male weaknesses.Read the full review
Swing Vote marries mild satire with Capra-esque melodrama in a formula that works surprisingly well.Read the full review
The mix of comedy and drama is winning; Costner couldn't be better, and the little girl is a find.Read the full review
Swing Vote isn't exactly a toothless political satire. It's something worse: a satire with dentures.Read the full review
Paints a surprisingly sour portrait of nearly all its characters, so much so that even the final-reel redemption rings hollow and forced.Read the full review
A mainstream, eager-to-please, relatively generic endeavor, not an auteurist showcase.Read the full review
This potentially sharp working-class fantasy proves strangely unsatisfying.Read the full review
This reasonably entertaining movie falters by trying to be both a dark comedy and a sentimental treatise on family and country.Read the full review
