Uncritical, infatuated with Reagan's charisma rather than searching for the chinks in his armour, the film's lively score keeping things balefully light.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2017

This wry documentary focuses on the original entertainer-turned-president and his box of showbiz tricks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2017

The aim of directors Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez, anthologising their media moments, is elusive, unless it's to expose the actor-president as a skilful showman.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2017

The Reagan Show pretty much gives away its entire thesis in its title, but it's fun to trawl through these archive images and it allows us to ponder whether we'll ever really be able to claw through the protective layers of spin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2017

It reminds us what a limited and one-dimensional politician he was - but also what a consummate performer whenever the cameras were in sight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2017

Entertaining if slightly pointless ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2017

... a provocative and amusing look at President Ronald Reagan's use of television to sell economic plans, missile treaties and, mostly, himself.

| Sep 25, 2017

It's a glib and scattered exposé, the sort of ersatz thesis film that invites you to chuckle at the sight of Reagan doing multiple takes of a campaign commercial while flubbing the name "Sununu" over and over again.

| Jul 6, 2017

At a time when sharp ideological stances are annoyingly ubiquitous, this film's lack of one is refreshing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2017

"The Reagan Show" helps attach a face to the name, but it doesn't accomplish much more than that.

| Jun 30, 2017

The Reagan Show does something that counts as a radical act these days: It looks back at history -- actual history -- by letting historical footage speak for itself, without any talking heads to tell us what to think.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2017

It's like a time capsule prologue to today's world, no more prescient than when a 1988 Reagan lets on to David Brinkley with exit-interview folksiness that he often wondered "how you could do the job if you hadn't been an actor."

| Jun 29, 2017

Rather than reveal a showman, The Reagan Show in the end imitates one.

| Jun 28, 2017

An oblique history of '80s disarmament laden with revealing off-camera asides, The Reagan Show makes the glossy surface profound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2017

A picture of a presidency that traded on the celebrity of its chief executive to sell simple, reactionary ideas about taxes, social welfare programs, and national defense to fiercely devoted supporters.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 28, 2017

An irony-laced view of the Reagan years and the birth of made-for-온라인카지노추천 governing.

| May 10, 2017

The political documentary counterpart to bootleg records, where the most telling moments are often the studio chatter.

| May 5, 2017

Velez and Pettengill's film is a work of found-footage commentary about the nature of our modern political paradigm.

| May 3, 2017

Although this doc is slender, it's also fascinating, playing into nostalgia and current-day politics in equal measure.

| Apr 23, 2017