The true cleverness of “Chappaquiddick” is seen in how it moves with Kennedy’s evolving story in a way that by the end of the film we're still unclear on what’s the truth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

This cinematic dramatization is measured in tone, and Ed Helms is particularly good.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2021

Chappaquiddick asks questions, but they're not really the right ones right this minute

| Jul 6, 2021

What results is a piece that is intellectually fascinating and largely well-acted, but one that also won't find much resonance beyond an audience that was already engaged out of historical or political curiosity...

| Apr 20, 2021

The movie offers a convincing demonstration of how political mechanisms conspire to protect the powerful from their own mistakes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2021

Some interesting moments here, but the film is one long pulled punch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2021

Chappaquiddick is step-by-step, methodical, but the crime procedural elements of the story are second to the examination of the Kennedy power structure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Important viewing regardless of how you feel about the Kennedy clan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2020

In the world of Chappaquiddick, everyone is as they seem. They really are -- that wasn't a typo. The righteous are righteous, the regretful are regretful.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

A chastening, timely picture of the corrosive effects of power and the compromises we make in the name of self-preservation.

| Aug 20, 2019

Friday, July 18, 1969: Apollo 11 is about to land on the moon and Senator Edward Kennedy is about to crash and burn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2019

Clarke's performance is strong, saddled with layers of pain and regret, and the script by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan mines some fascinating political drama out of the story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2019

Whilst perhaps too low-key a title to garner major traction, Chappaquiddick is nonetheless an intriguing-enough drama detailing a rather daring subject.

| May 4, 2019

Was Teddy the Fredo of the Kennedy boys?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2019

Chappaquiddick is yet another example of the "based on a true story" film that doesn't really bother to explore its subject with any depth, content to simply reel off story beats without worrying about what they might actually mean to the whole.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2019

By divorcing Ted Kennedy from his accomplishments, Chappaqudick forces a reckoning over the divide between his rhetoric and his actions.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 24, 2019

We'll never know exactly what happened, but this well-crafted, insightful and persuasive movie does a convincing job of recreating that night and the shifty cover-up that came next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2019

There are critical questions raised that are never answered, making Chappaquiddick a suspenseful and compelling (if convenient) blur of fact and fiction.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2018

A painfully realistic portrait of a tragedy that is too often viewed through a political prism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 25, 2018

Events are economically detailed, and the hypocrisy is revealed through not just the lowest of deeds, but the failure to hit heights so nobly articulated.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2018