LBJ is a valuable approach to one of the lesser known presidential periods in the US in which the legal and political focus was given to a transcendental issue such as the Civil Rights Act... [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 26, 2023

Settles for lionization when the man's life demands to be explored in all its contradictions.

| Original Score: C | Aug 10, 2021

Richard Jenkins turns in his usual winning performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

f for no other reason, the changing dynamic of the relationship between Johnson and Russell makes the movie worth checking out.

| May 19, 2020

Won't be his (Woody Harrelson) fault if you find this endearing, if this slight political biopic falls short. This is two stories for the price of one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2020

Here the physical and the verbal prevail over the analytic. This ends up placing the film in the category of conventional biopic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 27, 2018

Rob Reiner, in creative decline since the mid-nineties, approaches the personality of Lyndon B. Johnson in his best film in years. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Nov 26, 2018

LBJ is an eye-opening and sensitive look at a man who looked everyone in the eye and fought with conviction and respect to bring a nation together during one of its darkest moments.

| Nov 16, 2018

Despite the prosthetics applied to Woody Harrelson's face he does not really look like LBJ but this does not detract from a convincing interpretation...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Harrelson captures Johnson's dogged, hardworking approach to politics... He injects pace, energy and colour into a familiar storytelling approach that flicks back and forth across the period.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2018

So while providing some enlightening insight into the 36th President ("a sensitive man with an enormous ego," as this film's JFK puts it), LBJ never truly engrosses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 8, 2018

This early-days biopic isn't quite as good as the Bryan Cranston film All the Way but, along with Tom Wilkinson's performance in Selma, it continues Hollywood's crusade of recasting LBJ's public image.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2018

While the shooting of JFK is the dark shadow of this movie, what unfolds on screen is less about the 35th president than the man who replaced him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2018

[Woody] Harrelson gives an impressionistic performance. He doesn't look much like LBJ, even after the make-up, nor can he bring his voice to the same low register, but he understands the coyote cunning of the man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2018

An odd, stilted affair with a curiously distanced feel.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 31, 2018

...LBJ moves at a fast, highly entertaining clip...

| May 28, 2018

When the film isn't cracking jokes the film explores Johnson's desire to be liked by the public and fears of rejection but doesn't go far enough to ensure compelling results

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2017

A middle-of-the-road yet somewhat entertaining drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2017

Woody Harrelson delivers a powerhouse performance in this straightforward, solid political drama.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 14, 2017

... a consistently compelling history lesson, which puts the spotlight on a man forced to navigate the country through one of the most pivotal periods of the last century.

| Nov 10, 2017