The Insider Critic Reviews

With it's dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, The Insider offers Mann at his best -- blood up, unsanitized and unbowed.Read the full review

Is still sleek, gripping entertainment with a raw-nerved, changeable camera style that helps to amplify its meaning.Read the full review

A dead-on tale of corporate power, courage, cowardice and how we live.Read the full review

A well-orchestrated nightmare that keeps you on edge until the very end.Read the full review

A big, overlong, and rather unwieldy piece of storytelling, but the story it has to tell is so vital that it cuts through all the dramaturgical muddiness. It's a terrific muckraking melodrama--it will get people fuming.Read the full review

At its best, hard-hitting grown-up cinema (rare these days) and a movie blessed with a villain (Big Tobacco) for which all gloves can be removed and heaved into the next county.Read the full review

Power to absorb, entertain and anger.Read the full review

Pacino and Crowe are at their best, but the supporting cast also shines.Read the full review

A good but far from great movie because it portrays truth telling in America as far more imperiled than it is.Read the full review