Page One doesn't claim answers, but it does shine a new light into an old institution, and it will have people picking up newspapers, at the very least to determine if they're institutions worth fighting for.

| Mar 24, 2021

...a fascinating and far-reaching documentary about where traditional media belong in the digital age.

| Feb 13, 2020

It is a snapshot of a very specific place and time, an engaging look at a changing world and an industry struggling to keep up.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2019

The disjointed doc doesn't deliver on its promise to show us its "unprecedented access" to the newsroom, either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Carr brings an intoxicating degree of wit and honesty to the documentary. His professional integrity and genuine belief in the paper are what truly draws the audience into the film.

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

As the film preened and poked around, something in me kept shouting, "stop press." Or maybe just, "stop."

| Aug 25, 2017

Page One is always about at least six subjects at once, firing like a scatter-gun and only occasionally hitting its targets.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Worth watching even if it fails to deal with the paper's troubled relationship to the power elite that effectively makes it our Pravda.

| Nov 28, 2014

...a sporadically intriguing yet hopelessly unfocused documentary...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2012

Although Rossi's style is a little unruly - flitting from story to story and desk to desk without any particular emphasis - it's a fascinating and privileged insight into an industry in turmoil

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2012

A consistently engaging documentary that's paced like a thriller and spiced up by a few colourful characters worthy of fiction.

| Jan 18, 2012

This is a thought-provoking film for those interested in journalism.

| Original Score: B | Nov 23, 2011

In a culture where information is perceived to be free, we may be closer to learning the cost of losing the New York Times.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2011

Page One is a pretty even-handed film, asking hard questions about what the Internet and media aggregation does to the quality of news that we're getting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2011

There's something troubling about Page One, but it's difficult to give it a name.

| Oct 25, 2011

Fascinating viewing not only for fully paid-up NYT subscribers but anyone with a fleeting interest in the past, present or future of the newspaper industry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2011

This is a thoughtful fly-on-the-wall documentary that anyone concerned with the future of democracy should see.

| Sep 25, 2011

Morris, whose previous work includes the remarkable The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War, does not hesitate to provoke.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2011

It's a bracing reminder that good writing and good journalism don't happen naturally; they have to be nurtured.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2011

Timely and oddly inspiring.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2011