Man of the Year had the potential to be one of the all-time comedy masterpieces had it not shifted tones during the film's second hour.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 23, 2024

Barry Levinson's Man of the Year is a negligible and insipid film. If one takes a storyline "from the headlines," one should do it with some depth or not bother at all.

| Feb 14, 2021

A mess of incongruous ideas that even Williams can't redeem or effectively rib.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 21, 2020

Impeach this one already.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 6, 2020

Doesn't get my vote.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 30, 2012

Lame political comedy misses the mark.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Uneven, but never less than entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Man of the Year has some nice ideas and a handful of excellent scenes, but it struggles to find the right tone and is hamstrung by a ridiculous plot point.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2007

Too compromised to be more than a reasonably pleasurable entertainment, as if it is scared about what it is saying about the American political process.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2007

This being Robin Williams, it's hard to find his routines as vote-winningly hilarious as they're meant to be.

| Nov 2, 2007

There are good moments, although it doesn't work properly either as a satirical thriller or a rom-com.

| Nov 2, 2007

Cynicism or stupidity? It's hard to say which has the run of this idiotic satire in which Robin Williams plays a talk-show host who runs for president on a ticket of cleaning up politics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2007

One of the least convincing political satires of the millennium so far - no bite, no vision and no laughs.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 2, 2007

Political comedy morphs into attempted thriller in this confused, fitfully entertaining film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2007

Trust me, a sloppily-edited, unmanageable insult to the intelligence with far too many shortcomings to deserve any further analysis.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 27, 2007

Levinson pose les bonnes questions par le biais d'une démarche artistique un peu laborieuse, mais qui n'en demeure pas moins directe et efficace.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 20, 2007

Eschewing personality, it mistakes pandering for insight.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

If you look the other way and go with it regardless, Man of the Year can be an idealistic pleasure.

| Mar 1, 2007