Robert Redford's soft-spoken, intelligent but never less than entertaining movie reminds us of exactly what we've been missing -- a story that seems utterly fresh and a filmmaking style best described as civilized.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

The movie hums, purrs and shines. But it's also full of contradictions. A big budget picture about mass media fakery that's somewhat rigged itself, a docudrama that stretches the facts, an exposé on class prejudice that almost succumbs to [that] vice.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2024

Fiennes' ability to project the pain behind a well-mannered facade, to turn intellectual and emotional agony into a real and living thing, is devastating. Impressive as the film is... Quiz Show would have been a very different experience without him.

| Feb 13, 2024

For all of its occasional naiveté, this is a movie that practices what it preaches: It's a fine, worthy film, devoid of pandering or commercial compromise, that allows a number of talented people do some very good work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2024

A class act -- a big, important film, more relevant than ever, questioning the ways art and information and truth are rejiggered by 온라인카지노추천 as it increasingly blurs the line between news and entertainment.

| Feb 13, 2024

What's so good about Robert Redford's sleek version of the story is how delicately such issues as motive and emotions are sketched, and how ambiguity, not glib moralizing, is prized.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2024

The heart-stopping performance is that of Paul Scofield as Van Doren's poet father, Mark, who brings the full measure of patrician spine and patriarchal despair to the part of a famous father seeing his son chase after false fame.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

If you were truly shocked when you found out NBC blew up a "faulty" truck in order to get exciting video, well, then Quiz Show may chill you to the bone. Everyone else can enjoy it simply as an example of impeccable moviemaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2024

It's a very good movie, just short of greatness, carried along on outstanding performances by John Turturro and Ralph Fiennes, and Robert Redford's simple, evocative direction.

| Feb 13, 2024

The true star of Quiz Show is Redford, who had demonstrated fine directorial talent but achieves striking heights here. The movie works on so many levels it's almost dizzying.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2024

Quiz Show is that rare film that manages to be simultaneously provocative and entertaining. But its greatest accomplishment will be if viewers walk away contemplating our continuing erosion of values.

| Original Score: A | Feb 13, 2024

Although I found Quiz Show consistently entertaining, it takes itself just a tad too seriously to really nail its not-entirely-serious subject.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2024

If you... accept the film purely as entertainment, it is a pretty sensational movie, the best in Redford's decorous directing career, and perhaps the most captivating non-action thriller since All the President's Men.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2024

A terrifically entertaining account of the tarnishing of television's Golden Age.

| Feb 13, 2024

Quiz Show stayed in my head for weeks, not just for the Big Subject that Redford thought he was getting at, but for its extraordinarily cunning social portraiture and its phenomenal subtlety about such tyrannical '90s subjects as sudden fame.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 13, 2024

Historians will no doubt find this argument simplistic... So be it. The fact remains that Quiz Show is a marvelously acted, intelligently crafted drama that contains a wealth of astute observations about the character of this country and its citizens.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

The movie has the feel of an ensemble where things are weighed equally and the sympathy, as well as the blame, is spread around.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

It's so rare to find intellectual issues dealt with anymore in American movies, so rare that some film-industry observers are questioning whether Quiz Show will be a commercial success. Let's hope so.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

Quiz Show is a corker of a movie -- cracklin' good entertainment, an engrossing story of greed and lost trust; a seamless, headlong tale of Faustian deals that cost America its very soul.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

The acting is splendid -- especially Fiennes, Scofield and Turturro. So are the cultural details and social grace notes. In Quiz Show, Redford and his superb team have turned pop culture into a morality play.

| Feb 13, 2024