By failing to contextualize their race and class, Bombshell overlooks how complicated the real women who ousted Roger Ailes are.

| Apr 7, 2022

Bombshell doubles down on the myth that victims must be perfect to be considered victims.

| Original Score: C | Mar 30, 2021

This superbly acted Faustian tale may inhabit the world of white privilege but it is terrific at unpicking the workplace sexism millions of ordinary women face every day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2020

It's Bombshell's modus operandi that female leads are continually explaining things to men, but the women-only interactions are the strongest - epitomised by a moment when Gretchen, Megyn and Kayla silently share the same lift.

| Jan 21, 2020

It's this element of recoil from total sympathy with these harassed women that makes the film intriguing though.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2020

Bombshell is a fine enough movie, one that's entertaining and well-paced when you're watching it but forgettable as soon as you leave the theatre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2020

What happened to these women is appalling; that the film takes such pains to sand down the politics of its central characters to make them more sympathetic undermines its entire thesis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2020

Thanks to the exceptional cast and the witty, smart direction, the story of what happened such a short time ago is both bitterly entertaining and unashamedly provocative.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2020

Because the performances are as good as they are, you completely buy into the unfolding drama.

| Jan 17, 2020

[A] timely satirical takedown that finds black humour and absurdist comedy in the subject of workplace sexual harassment while never losing sight of its devastating repercussions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2020

[Charlize] Theron, [Nicole] Kidman and [Margot] Robbie are highly watchable performers who are hardly stretched by this material.

| Jan 15, 2020

Deep at points but paper-thin at others, the film skips over questions of complicity, and pulls some of its punches, especially politically. But it's still an engaging look at life behind the scenes of one of the weirdest workplaces in existence...

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 13, 2020

[Director Jay Roach] and Randolph are rightly fascinated by the social climate and geography of the Fox offices -- the factions, hierarchies, protocols and rivalries that define the place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2020

Disingenuous trash.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 13, 2020

Bombshell avoids a big bang in favour of a firm commitment to a screenplay that succumbs to occasional theatrics, but understands the nuances of sexism, harassment and #MeToo.

| Jan 3, 2020

It's fun to watch powerful men get destroyed. What's not fun is watching bad people take down worse people for self-serving reasons and get treated as heroes for doing it.

| Dec 30, 2019

An absolute toilet fire of a movie, a sub-HBO-movie effort comprised of winking storytelling tricks, 'SNL'-level celebrity impersonation, and kiddie pool-deep interrogation of the figures at its center.

| Dec 26, 2019

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, John Lithgow at the top of their game in a solid recap of sexual harassment at Fox News.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 24, 2019

"Bombshell" isn't always as explosive as it would like to be, but it definitely makes an impact.

| Original Score: B | Dec 24, 2019

It may be difficult to divorce the Fox News of it all - something that never really gets indicted in the same way as Ailes' behavior - but it's still a story worth telling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2019