Mike Wallace Is Here Reviews
Worth seeing if you're interested in journalists, watching people give an interview...there are some really juicy and interesting clips regarding freedom of the press...
| Jun 16, 2020
Avi Belkin's documentary tells its story entirely through archive footage, which proves both compelling and limiting.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2020
It's pure cinema: dramatic, ambiguous, devastating - and one more reason this particular film doesn't need to reference a fictionalised version of its own star's role in history.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2020
This film does not offer any actual conclusions, but it is an atmospheric immersion in the old, smoky and very male world of American 온라인카지노추천 journalism.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2020
A little more air might have been welcome, but this remains a hugely entertaining film for anyone interested in the American way of communicating.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2020
Avi Belkin's Mike Wallace Is Here harvests a vast archive of interviews and b-roll footage to create a fascinating profile of a combative, conflicted figure, who nevertheless substantially changed the face of how news was reported.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2020
While the film fails to address its subject's reporting on LGBTQ issues, the piece does cover a huge swath of the life and work of a man who lived to be 93, and didn't retire until age 88.
| May 28, 2020
At its most successful, the film draws a line from his childhood insecurities, to the bouts of crippling depression Wallace experienced at the height of his success.
| Jan 21, 2020
When Belkin continues on the straight-and-narrow, he creates a stolid stream of consciousness. When he gets sidetracked, the movie begins to feel like a rough edit.
| Jan 17, 2020
Wallace says he wouldn't want the same sort of beam turned on him that he trained on so many. Regardless of your thoughts about rules of the game he helped establish, you'll be glad this film reverses that golden rule to offer insights on an icon.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2019
A rousing documentary about the career of a controversial journalist.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 22, 2019
Terrific and informative.
| Oct 2, 2019
Here Is Mike Wallace is a sharp and admirable film on many levels even if you never tuned in to 60 Minutes.
| Sep 3, 2019
Mike Wallace Is Here remains clear-eyed and hard-hitting, just as, one imagines, the no-bullshit Wallace would have wanted it.
| Aug 29, 2019
It's the sum of a lifelong interview of sorts with the king of the interview himself as subject. And to Belkin's credit, it's tough, honest and sometimes brutal, but also deeply moving.
| Aug 23, 2019
Uses a massive amount of archival footage to give us an illuminating look into the life of the legendary newsman
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2019
Surely everyone recognizes the Wallace name from his 40 years on 온라인카지노추천's fabled "60 Minutes," but did you know he was an actor, pitchman, and self-confessed "bad father" as well?
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 17, 2019
Questioned about his borderline brutal methodology, Wallace would say he was motivated by a search for the truth. But as Avi Belkin's documentary makes painfully clear, much of Wallace's bulldog style was born of insecurity, of a sense of unworthiness.
| Original Score: B | Aug 16, 2019
The movie never establishes its own viewpoint. It remains a random collection of clips, many fascinating in their own right, that are never quite shaped into a larger picture or more cohesive theme.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2019
What emerges, in a spectacularly edited 90 minutes, is a troubled soul who never lost faith in the power of human communication, while sometimes getting caught up in the drama that can cheapen the job.
| Aug 12, 2019