Bobby, even if it suffers from a few silly scenes, gets more right than it does wrong.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Despite its flaws, its intriguing premise leaves us haunted by thoughts of "What if?"Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
When you hear his (Robert Kennedy's) patient, meditative speeches, from which every note of demagoguery or pandering has been purged, you glimpse the film Mr. Estevez set out to make -- the one you may wish you were watching.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Bobby coasts along on a dread, and sorrow, it doesn't earn.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Bobby has its heart in the right place (on its sleeve). But it doesn't have its screenplay anywhere - or at least, anywhere near the heft that its subject demands.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
You don't have to have lived through the period to find this wrenching. And you don't have to doubt Estevez's sincerity to find it emotionally opportunistic.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Just when you think you've got a handle on the central characters in Bobby, yet more of them appear: The thing is a little like the stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera."Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The resulting finished project is a series of skits performed by famous people doing favors for a friend, and it works about as well as one might expect from such an endeavor.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
It's an ambitious film drenched in sincerity and oozing with nostalgia that, despite the energy provided by its title icon via archival footage, falls flat dramatically in nearly every other way.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jim Ridley
Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is--an "Airport" movie with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as the central calamity and an all-star cast deployed like multiple George Kennedys.Read Full Review »
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