I might be being oversensitive, but blandish docs like this one shouldn’t be given the benefit of the doubt.

| Jan 23, 2023

It is how the success of these debates that makes 'Best of Enemies' all the more relevant.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2021

As fun as Best of Enemies is - and it is a lot of fun - it leaves us with a bittersweet feeling about those ten nights...

| Jan 14, 2021

The result is exciting but also chilling - an origin story for a long national nightmare.

| Aug 20, 2020

As entertaining as it is essential, Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's film depicts the birth of punditry in real-time and shows how its all but drowning out non-biased, exhaustively sourced, good ole fashioned news media.

| Jun 22, 2020

[A] fascinating look not only into this chapter of history but into the driving forces behind Buckley and Vidal and their disdain for each other.

| Dec 8, 2019

There can't be a clearer sign of bad documentary filmmaking than reducing the most substantive part of your film to nothing more than an afterthought.

| Jun 5, 2019

[Director Morgan] Neville and [Robert] Gordon have managed to make politics funny and interesting for the audience at large.

| Nov 9, 2018

Let's thank the media gods this clash of the titans for the ages is being retold by two born entertainers. They have turned first-rate media-driven theater into a great time at the movies. It is, in a word, deeeee-licious.

| Aug 22, 2018

An innocent young person might believe that, not so long ago, America was a latter-day Athens in which political arguments were magnificent in their purity and eloquence... For a useful antidote to this idea, I recommend Best of Enemies.

| May 16, 2018

It's an entertaining documentary, as well as a very sobering one.

| Oct 11, 2017

I am sorry to see Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's Best of Enemies being hailed for remembering a golden age when intellectuals fought out profound issues in public.

| Aug 17, 2017

Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's documentary gives us a fascinating glimpse into these famous debates and their historical context.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2017

We may not be able to have our style and substance when it comes to 온라인카지노추천 debates, but with its glamorous late-1960s backdrop and sure-footed analysis, this documentary sure can.

| Jul 26, 2017

Once Best of Enemies revs to full speed, using debate footage and allowing the adversaries to speak for themselves... , the documentary becomes exceptionally interesting.

| Jun 20, 2017

Anyone interested in political debate and the state of modern television will find Best of Enemies most engrossing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Its goal is primarily to entertain its audience by presenting a chewy compendium of the snittiest sound bites.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 10, 2016

Almost obscenely entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2016

If even these two witty, well-educated, well-mannered men of letters couldn't keep their on-air interactions from degenerating into cheap shots and name-calling, who could?

| May 27, 2016

As Christopher Hitchens puts it, "There's nothing feigned about their mutual animosity. They really do despise each other."

| Feb 12, 2016