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- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: Truth’ is simplistic, pedestrian swill, no matter when you release it; putting it out so close to ‘Spotlight’ merely emphasizes its already overpowering flaws.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: After two hours of distracting us from the real story, it has the nerve to feign grandiosity, weakly gesturing at observations about American journalism that were made with more strength and elegance ten years ago in Good Night, and Good Luck. Truth pretends to stand for the unvarnished virtues of pure journalism while partaking in the very same obfuscation and bias it condemns.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A bold exploration of some of the challenges faced by investigative journalists in an age of dirty politics.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: tells a maddening story, but Vanderbilt fails to entirely make his case.
- Rob Daniel @ Electric Shadows
- Excerpt: Intelligent, entertaining viewing
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Intense and tantalizing, delving into the deplorable decline of modern journalism…
- Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv
- Excerpt: The trouble is, in recounting Mapes’ case, it winds up throwing her back under the bus.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A fascinating look at the pitfalls of modern journalism, and a compelling portrait of a journalist who paid a high price for letting them trip her up.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: People frequently cite a variant of the maxim you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. In Truth, your belief in its fact will most likely depend on which political party you most identify with.
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- [New – 2/25/16] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: You can’t handle the Truth.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Blanchett is nothing less than brilliant in her portrayal of Mapes as a driven, dedicated, high-strung professional who may have her own opinions but is motivated above all by a commitment to journalistic truth.
- Daniel Schindel @ Movie Mezzanine
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: The ambiguity of ‘Truth’ leaves it neither celebratory nor condemnatory, an interesting but slightly flat recounting of a major misstep in modern journalism.
- Rob Wallis @ The Metropolist
- Excerpt: … a tightly scripted, neatly directed piece of populist entertainment.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Even a pointedly anti-Bush documentary about the Rathergate scandal would be preferable to Truth’s colorless fiction; at least the former would have a little righteous fire in it belly.
