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2012
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Negative reviews
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2.0
Palins vice presidential vetting process lasted a mere five days (other possible veeps were subjected to months of scrutiny, were told) simply because ..
EW
4.4
Alaska still loves her; thats why shes so urgent about the results of an Alaska poll on her popularity.
Rogerebert
1.3
If you watch The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on Amazon Prime, the site will probably recommend you try out Jacques Demys subsequent The Little Girls of Roc ..
3.5
) Instead, the films most scathing indictment is a symbolic one: It attacks our mutual inability to communicate.
1.5
To its credit, Game Change doesnt pull the This movie is not really about politics trick.
Vulture
3.5
Its a fascinating behind the scenes look at politics as long as youre a Democrat.
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Nixon.If you already like Palin, you may view Game Change with empathy, if not sympathy, for a woman who was thrust into a situation for which she was ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
(more) Game Change is a searing, behind the scenes look at John McCains 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah ..
Blu Ray
3.8
Thats not to say viewers with a negative impression of Palin wont be surprised by anything in Julianne Moores portrayal of the vice presidential candi ..
Usa Today
3.1
The story picks up shortly after the events of the first film, with Greg (Ben Stiller) embarking on a road trip with fiancee Pam (Teri Polo) and her f ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.5
A wildly revised version of this venerable creative music ensemble makes a clean, beautiful new recording in the studio and live, with fresh music fro ..
Pop Matters
2.0
Palin supporters may hate it, but Palin should send Roach and his team a dozen roses
News Day
3.5
The McCain Palin campaign is just flat out more fun than the Obama campaign.
New York Post
3.5
The film re creates various moments of YouTube campaign ephemera very well remember when that old white lady called Obama an Arab and McCain looked un ..
Salon
3.5
Bush he beat a bad man..HBOs Game Change (March 10) feels like the cable TV version of that ad.
Time
4.0
A cracking political drama about the true story of the meteoric rise to notoriety by Alaska governor Sarah Palin (played with eerie precision by Julia ..
Herald Sun
1.5
Ready to Republican party like its 2008!.Just in time for the 2012 presidential election, HBO is offering us a reminder of just how odd the 2008 campa ..
E Online
2.5
Partisans on both sides of the political divide will battle over the accuracy of HBOs Game Change.
Cleve Land
5.0
For many Americans, and not all of them McCain supporters or even Republicans, Sarah Palin provided, if only briefly, an unexpected vision of hope, a ..
La Times
1.0
The theme of women who are unobjectionable (and even sexy) until they have real power, at which point they are labeled mentally unstable and must be s ..
Wsj
5.0
But the Palin presented within this backstage at the campaign story has none of the cutesy attitude Fey nailed in comedy sketches.
Denver Post
4.4
RELATED: Game Change Theatrical Trailer Released Members of the lame stream media, as Palin famously labeled them, will enjoy the satirical touches th ..
People
1.5
There are fascinating levels of fact and fiction in this TV movie but the script struggles between docudrama relevance and the sense that some of the ..
Winnipeg Free Press
2.0
As an entertaining, briskly paced political yarn, its right up there with HBOs Emmy winning Recount.
Uncle Barky
1.5
The dramatic re creations are somewhat uneven: The convention staging is quite convincing, the campaign trail less so.
Articles Philly
4.5
Whats truly distressing about the production is that, for all its excellence as a film, it really is all about a game. It is a movie about tactics and ..
Esquire
4.5
The scenes between Paulson and Moore are horrifying, as Palin psychotically refuses to learn what she doesnt know.
Web Archive
2.0
x Close What is the Tomatometer.The Tomatometer score based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics is a trusted measurement of cri ..
Google
5.0
Palin (Julianne Moore) was a Conservative with a spitfire, for the people public persona.
Digital Journal
4.0
He brought in experienced strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) to take over the senior staff position on his campaign, shaking up the team then ..
Ncr Online
4.5
Game Change, which explores how smart people make dumb decisions, is a movie for all of us.
Freep
3.5
Try as the filmmakers might, it just isnt the same. How could it be, really
Tnr
5.0
Palins martyrdom at the hands of the left.(Andrew Breitbart, the right wing blogger who died just over a week ago, delivers a fire breathing testimoni ..
Ny Times
4.5
That it works is testament to an astounding, Emmy worthy performance by Moore, who plays Palin with nuance, and without a trace of parody.
Contra Costa Times
4.5
A compelling, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant dramatization of the behind the scenes machinations of the Republican side of the 2008 presidential ..
Boston Globe
5.0
And then he goes along with it, championing the Alaska governor as the perfect choice to help McCain battle the star power of Barack Obama in the 2008 ..
RedEye
3.8
It takes a story whose outline we know and uses backstage access to turn it into a well paced drama.
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