Sidney Lumet's quick-paced direction feels remarkably fresh nearly half a century later. It also says something powerful about the state of the media today. And with their pointed personalities, the charismatic performances still zing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 2, 2024

Everything about the movie is thrilling and flawless.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 28, 2024

Like John Updike, Chayevsky and Lumet are here giving us Memories of the Ford Administration -- only they weren’t memories at the time. This was America as it was happening, suicidal ideations born of a scotch hangover, beamed live into every home.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 26, 2024

The film looks negligently made; the lighting bleaches the actors' faces, like color 온라인카지노추천 that needs tuning, and the New York views outside feel like blown-up photographs.

| Jan 20, 2024

“Network” is both a highly entertaining drama with lots of laugh-out-loud humor and a film that carries some very timely messages, ones that are extremely prescient in modern times.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 13, 2023

Its awfully entertaining, thanks to the self-conscious theatrics of Paddy Chayefsky, the terrific performances, and Lumets steady eye keeping the real world in perspective as the circus comes to town and stays.

| Apr 22, 2022

In the war between cinema and television, Network remains an atomic bomb.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

...an erratically-paced yet periodically spellbinding drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 17, 2021

[Network] is one of the most ferocious, outspoken, and generally cynical attacks ever launched by one medium upon another, and on the society that shapes and harbors them both. Fortunately... the assault Is often as entertaining as it is savage.

| Nov 30, 2021

The performances in the film are all around fantastic. Of course, Peter Finch as the mad-prophet Howard Beale is engaging. And Faye Dunaway as the soulless programming director Diana Christensen is a power-house.

| Apr 1, 2021

"Faye Dunaway devours this movie."

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2021

Boasts an extremely intelligent script that is, in alternation, deliciously sardonic and depressingly sobering, with rapid-fire dialogue that congests every cynical exchange.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 30, 2020

It's scary just how prophetic Network has become.

| Aug 10, 2020

Chayefsky was more wrong than right; Television policed itself better than he envisioned because he didn't understand who really calls the shots when it comes to programming.

| Jul 23, 2020

Excellent portrayals by Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall make each performer worthy of an Academy Award nomination and makes Network a biting treat.

| May 26, 2020

Network is a staggering and jolting attack upon the networks and corporate structure.

| Oct 28, 2019

A corrosive and poetic story about the world of American television. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 23, 2019

[Network] regularly finds itself at the pinnacle of "Best Movie" ratings. In a world where ratings are everything, that's a mighty fine accomplishment.

| Jun 11, 2019

With a powerful performance from Peter Finch, the satirical Network is relevant more so today than upon the theatrical release back in 1976.

| Nov 27, 2018

It deserves to be credited for [its] accuracy... and overall it's still great fun to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 6, 2018