| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

The transporting power of this experience is in the passionate and almost outlandishly eloquent verbal expression Trumbo poured into his correspondence, and the vividly American principles he defends.

| Nov 10, 2008

The film is an enlightening recap of '50s Red Scare politics, and a parade of actors giving meaningful, earnest readings of Trumbo's speeches and letters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

It will serve as a fine entry point for younger auds interested in learning about theprice paid by moviemakers and their families swept up in the 1950s anti-Communist net.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

It's a pleasure to meet a truly moral man in a documentary that rightly heralds his name.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

A ousing documentary as ornery, orotund and captivating as its subject.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Although it glosses over a few relevant details, Trumbo also functions as a passionate defense of truth from a writer who embodied all of the virtues that America claims to value.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 12, 2008

A celebration of a large-hearted contrarian, and if it's over-worshipful, the film gets you in an indulgent frame of mind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2008

It is oddly pleasant to know that such a man once existed.

| Jul 21, 2008

Trumbo is well worth seeing for what it tells us about the age in which this irrepressible individualist lived, loved, suffered and finally triumphed.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2008

The substance of those letters, along with documentary footage and a touching appearance by Kirk Douglas, throws a baleful light on a bleak chapter of American history.

| Jul 1, 2008

What kind of international revolutionary whines about his family being made unwelcome among the tykes of the bourgeoisie?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 27, 2008

Using Trumbo's letters, statements, speeches and scripts, director Peter Askin creates a rich portrait of a cantankerous, principled man of words.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2008

Trumbo is an unconventional film about an unconventional man.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2008

Family home movies and photos and archival clips round out the film, which holds its hero-worshiping to fairly tolerable levels.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 27, 2008

The best way to learn about Trumbo is through his writing, which is spirited, dry, and utterly convinced of its truth

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 27, 2008

Peter Askin's stirring documentary Trumbo gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2008

Trumbo emerges as a son's bittersweet valentine to his old man, and a tribute to the senior Trumbo's resilience, wit, and outrage in the face of a national disgrace.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 26, 2008

Balancing the political and the personal is a smart idea, though the resulting togglethon ends up being the uneasiest of marriages.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6 | Jun 26, 2008

The readings of Dalton Trumbo's letters to family and friends are starkly rendered-famous faces...recite rousing missives without the aid of sets or props of any kind save for Trumbo's own thunderous proclamations in defense of free speech.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2008