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W., a biography of President Bush, is fascinating. No other word for it.Read the full review
The pleasure of Mr. Stone's work has never been located in restraint but in excess, a commitment to extremes that can drown out the world or, as in this film, give it newly vivid, hilarious and horrible form.Read the full review
The performances are good (some scarily realistic), and the movie is enjoyable to watch. But as a probing analysis of the 43rd president, it falls short.Read the full review
In the end, W. makes up in immediacy what it lacks in objectivity.Read the full review
Like Tina Fey's Sarah Palin, Stone's George Bush gets his best lines straight from the source.Read the full review
W. is not a dispassionate biography; it is an interpretation of personality intersecting with history, and as a piece of drama it is persuasive and perfectly creditable.Read the full review
When it works, W. can take your breath away. When it doesn't, you can feel Stone still working out his feelings toward the man.Read the full review
Whatever you think of Dubya, he has balls. The movie doesn't.Read the full review
Stone paddles down the giant river of Bush's life without exploring any of the tributaries; he passes by two or three dozen better movies along the way.Read the full review
The intrepid one is the outstanding Josh Brolin, who does such a phenomenal job in the title role that he carries every scene he's in to a place of subtlety and integrity far beyond what Stone needs to make his attention-grabbing noise.Read the full review
