It’s a bright, beaming piece of crowd pleasing entertainment that finds the silver lining in failure.

| Jan 11, 2025

[Bridges'] handsome, effortless charisma is on full beam as Preston Tucker, an American car entrepreneur during the 1940s.

| Sep 27, 2023

If Tucker is the work of a director who is lavishly in command of his medium, it's also a shallow piece of moviemaking, whose message is spelled out in oversized block letters for everyone to read in all their pastel, Capraesque banality.

| May 8, 2023

The automobile as the grand American illusion… perfect production design from the first car down to the last little hat. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2022

Tucker works well enough on a purely emotional level to become a resonant film. And its naivety is in certain ways its strength.

| Aug 16, 2021

Tucker's style, like the film commemorating him, is that of a story-board artist turning life into instant wish-fulfilment. All posture, no depth: all good looks nothing behind them.

| Aug 16, 2021

Coppola adds in a fair number of unique beats to ensure that TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM isn't just a hollow echo of filmmaking of the past.

| Apr 26, 2021

'Tucker: The Man and His Dream' is a very elegant Coppola biopic on the legacy of automotive pioneer Preston Tucker. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 8, 2020

The result is psychologically fascinating but deeply disheartening as the latest chapter of Coppola's cinematic career.

| Jan 16, 2020

Coppola tells this story with grand exuberance without masking the personal and historical tragedies that it involves.

| Aug 9, 2019

Tucker, the character, embellishes and enchants with his mile a minute mouth (hilarious blowing past malapropisms like opening "Aunt Dora's box") while Tucker, the film, does the same in its rose-colored view of an imaginary heyday of U.S. manufacturing.

| Nov 5, 2018

Tucker: The Man and His Dream is an all-American story. It's just not the one that everyone wants to hear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2018

Smoke-filled, rousing dramedy about corruption.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2010

A revealing and heartfelt biopic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2008

Fluent, brave and touching.

| May 6, 2008

Underrated film focuses on fascinating story of real car maker, played well by Jeff Bridges.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2008

The true story of a great American visionary who was thwarted, if not destroyed, by the established order, Tucker represents the sunniest imaginable telling of an at least partly tragic episode in recent history.

| Dec 12, 2007

The result is a film consistent narratively, confident stylistically and abounce with the quaint quality that animated both the hero and his times, something we used to call pep.

| Dec 12, 2007

Francis Coppola's stylish and heartfelt tribute to the innovative automobile designer Preston Thomas Tucker turns out to be one of his most personal and successful movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 12, 2007

If 12-year old boys had money, Tucker would have made a million overnight

Full Review | Nov 28, 2006