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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quiz Show, for all its lack of real narrative drive, delivers its message loud, clear and entertainingly.

| Feb 13, 2024

Quiz Show is remarkably entertaining, a movie that works as spectacle, as tangled ethical drama, as an exposé of the fault lines of ethnicity and class in this country.

| Feb 13, 2024

A rich, tantalizing work -- the best Hollywood movie of the year thus far -- illuminating not just the peculiar culture of the '50s but much that is timeless in human affairs.

| Feb 13, 2024

Redford's direction is fluent and self-effacing, and he draws fine performances from his cast, not least a neat cameo from Martin Scorsese as the show's sponsor, purring with delight at his own impish cynicism.

| Feb 13, 2024

One of the best movies I've seen so far this year, and an unqualified triumph for director Robert Redford.

| Feb 13, 2024

Fiennes does a marvelous job as Van Doren. He is as likeable here as he was loathsome as Nazi camp administrator Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. He's an actor to be reckoned with.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2024

It is well acted, suavely paced, wittily scripted. But you start to throw questions at it soon afterwards.

| Feb 12, 2024

What gives Quiz Show a pulse-beat quicker than normal is the courage with which it undertakes to explore the rivalry of Jew and Gentile in American society, a ticklish ethnic theme that Hollywood usually passes over.

| Feb 12, 2024