Given its timeliness, "Recount" is a painful sort of fun, and likely a great argument starter.

| Mar 30, 2020

The cable channel has taken a difficult, divisive topic and turned it into a clear, fast-moving thriller with comical overtones.

| Jun 14, 2018

It's so suspenseful that it's easy to forget that you already know how it ends.

| Jun 13, 2018

Even when the complicated political and legal machinations are handled gracefully, Recount doesn't have time to give these people depth or render their unique situations with sufficient shadings of complexity.

| Jun 13, 2018

The tension that swirled around thousands of disputed Florida ballots after the November 2000 election was almost Shakespearean... Recount effectively dramatizes that struggle.

| Jun 13, 2018

The movie possesses an underlying smugness that seems to say that all would be well in the world today if only Al Gore had eked out a win that fateful November and December - a conclusion that is impossible to reach.

| Jun 13, 2018

If you have the slightest interest in politics and movie treatments thereof, I recommend it.

| Jun 13, 2018

What's in it for viewers just looking for a good time? Since this is only a movie, with imagined dialogue and Hollywood stars, it must pass the entertainment test. Mostly, it does.

| Jun 13, 2018

It's a gorgeous bit of political theater.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 13, 2018

Recount is nonetheless accomplished and useful in piecing together a sequence of events that seemed confusing and chaotic from the outside. The effect is like watching a freeway pile-up in slow motion.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 13, 2018

Recount, an efficient and relentless enactment of the strategists on both sides of the Florida controversy, shows an accident that was waiting to happen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2008

Though depressing as a reminder of how George W. Bush's presidency was won by the concerted efforts of numerous Republican interests more or less working independently of each other, it's also a screechy example of liberal Hollywood condescension.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 27, 2008

The movie doesn't embrace its potential for farce, for suspense, or for outrage. Ultimately, the filmmakers could have punched a little harder.

| May 27, 2008

A splendid cast mostly just sits around watching the bad news on television, dutiful to the letter of Danny Strong's conscientious script yet insufficiently roused to righteous spirit even as, before their eyes, our republic gets banana'd.

| May 27, 2008

An astute and deliciously engrossing film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2008

Butterfly ballots and hanging chads become the stuff of great political intrigue.

Full Review | May 27, 2008

An electrifying slapstick tragedy about a mad moment in American politics, a moment that must never happen again but easily could.

| May 27, 2008

Smart, star-studded and anchored by another fine-tuned performance from Kevin Spacey.

Full Review | May 27, 2008

It's impossible to overstate the excellent casting here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2008

In the end, spin wins out over substance, just as it does in every modern American fairy tale.

| May 27, 2008