In this excellent documentary, long-form journalist turned documentary filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer profiles Roy Cohn, the closeted gay lawyer who was the mastermind the Lavender Scare of the 1950s...

| Dec 7, 2022

The documentary does a phenomenal job of letting Cohn speak for himself, showing us how he didn’t really care how evil he seemed. It paints a ruinous portrait of a menacing man and leaves us frightened for how Trump’s story might end.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 19, 2022

However overwrought, Tyrnauer's movie forcefully illustrates Cohn's once cozy relationship with New York's rich, powerful, and privileged, many of them liberals and/or members of the media...

| Jun 22, 2020

Director Matt Tyrnauer once again displays a remarkable ability to rummage around in our country's recent past as if it were an untidy closet, extracting painful mementos.

| May 26, 2020

The two versions of Cohn, his public image and his private life, are fascinating and disturbing. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

Outside of Adolf Eichmann's trial, I daresay nothing this individually monstrous has been seen on screen before.

| Feb 10, 2020

There's nothing much new here, including the implication that Cohn was a key factor in the introduction of the combative, zero-sum style of modern politics. The film does manage, however -- maybe unintentionally -- to evoke a certain pity for Cohn.

| Jan 6, 2020

If you've ever found yourself wondering how American politics attained its current level of crazed amorality, Where's My Roy Cohn? provides a few answers.

| Dec 10, 2019

The documentary does a reasonable survey of his faults and foibles, lining up those willing to plunge a knife, but it's neither definitive nor detailed enough to satisfy even a minimum standard of proof.

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

A brisk and interesting synopsis of man whose dogged pursuit of fame and power corroded any trace of personal morality.

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

The film suffers to some extent from having such an unsympathetic subject - and the attempts to humanise him only serve to make his actual behaviour seem venaler. It is, however, timely enough, and fascinating in a reptilian kind of way.

| Original Score: 17/20 | Dec 2, 2019

Lawyer Cohn apparently pulled many malicious stunts in his life. Now director Tyrnauer, whose sex swipes at dead movie stars in his last documentary somehow seemed credible, delivers a real hitjob that remains more absorbing than on point.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2019

The film delivers high-speed tabloid journalism and rolls along swiftly. It's jammed with information that make shock the unknowing.

| Nov 14, 2019

This is a film that is a study in power and how one man shaped political discourse in ways that no one saw before, but has been elevated to new levels today.

| Original Score: B | Nov 1, 2019

Prosecutorial as it is, Matt Tyrnauer shows us the weirdly whimsical side of the man... I guess even river scum must have professional courtesy.

| Oct 31, 2019

Where's My Roy Cohn? could be a soap opera if it wasn't so real.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2019

... succeeds by digging deeper into Cohn's personal life and his public image, showing how a shadowy figure like Cohn gains influence and wields power behind the scenes, and persuasively connects his legacy to present-day affairs.

| Oct 26, 2019

Director Matt Tyrnauer (previous documentaries include "Valentino: The Last Emperor" and "Studio 54") makes fine use of archival materials.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

Regardless of whether you think he was a man of integrity or the reason authoritarians have risen to power, [the film] is entertaining because Cohn was himself an entertainer.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 24, 2019

Worst of all, Cohn might actually fancy this condemnation. In treating him as a devil, its most cogent argument is for the continued power and relevance of a long-dead man.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 23, 2019