| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Quite apart from the fact that it's spectacularly uninventive and uncontroversial, it's just such a luvvie-fest.

| Jan 29, 2007

Using his haunting elegy for Martin Luther King over the final scene, Estevez makes most of what's gone before seem entertaining enough but fairly trivial. This is not, after all, Grand Hotel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2007

You can understand why somebody would want to make a film about such a famous "lost moment" in American history, but this celebrity ensemble piece is misconceived and poorly managed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2007

Few of the characterisations could fill the back of a matchbook, and, in refusing to see RFK as anything other than a liberal messiah, the film meanders through its political context with a white stick and a dopey smile.

| Jan 26, 2007

Liberal Hollywood may well be looking for a uniting, inspiring figure of principle in these troubled times. Bobby Kennedy is a dull choice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2007

The profound grip of Bobby is that it's about the murder of a dream, an eloquent requiem for what might have been, and a tragic reminder of how much that bullet cost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2007

Presents a blinkered look at the man and what he meant to Americans in the turbulent 60s, but nobody can accuse Estevez of lacking sincerity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2007

A remarkable ensemble in an uneven patchwork of loss, longing and the urgent necessity of a societal rethink.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

For all his good intentions, Mr. Estevez has reduced history to a bad melodrama in which nothing much happens until a crazed assassin (of whom we catch only a fleeting prior glimpse) supposedly destroys the last great hope of a liberal renaissance.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2006

Ham-handed and 온라인카지노추천-movie flat, it states the obvious, then states it again and again and again.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 25, 2006

It's this disconnect between historical reality and dramatic indulgence that keeps an otherwise worthy film from being completely satisfying. There are moments, though, where even the most hardened cynic may have to wipe away tears of regret and loss.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2006

Ultimately rises above its inadequacies; it's an earnest tribute to a time gone by, and to a symbol of hope.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2006

A lot of quick, character-defining cameos, which makes the movie play out like a pilot for a sprawling prime-time television show.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2006

A compelling film of tender moral decency that boasts a number of moments not to be shrugged off.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2006

So keenly felt and so deeply imagined I couldn't help but be moved, even grateful for its bleeding-heart nostalgia -- which winds up feeling rather up-to-date.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2006

Ambitious, uneven and deeply affecting drama.

| Nov 23, 2006

With one film, Estevez has transformed himself from a middle-aged joke into a youthful auteur who has made something beautiful, something he can be proud of, one of the best films of 2006.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 23, 2006

With so much brandishing of name actors in small roles, Bobby feels like a '70s disaster flick, with the disaster in the final minutes. While waiting, viewers must content themselves with playing spot-the-star.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 23, 2006