Primary Colors

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Critics' Reviews

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Movie Title
Avg. Score
100
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's a superb film -- funny, insightful and very wise about the realities of political life.Read Full Review »
100
USA Today: Jack Garner
Perhaps Nichols and May's greatest accomplishment is capturing perfectly on film the mysterious, complex, compromised relationship the public has with today's political leaders.Read Full Review »
90
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Guilty, deftly orchestrated fun.Read Full Review »
90
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Such a smart and savvy piece of work it encourages us to feel we're eavesdropping on history.Read Full Review »
90
NewsWeek: David Ansen
I expected to laugh; I didn't expect to be moved.Read Full Review »
80
Time: Richard Corliss
Nichols and his once and current partner, screenwriter Elaine May, can make a funny, knowing, ultimately judicious film from the deliciously satyric satire.Read Full Review »
80
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Its palette isn't primary at all: It's full of secondary shadings.Read Full Review »
75
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
One of those thrilling confluences in pop culture that rewards audiences for thinking the worst about politicians and the best about movie stars.Read Full Review »
70
The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
It's a movie struggling with its own identity crisis, and with the obvious constraints created by its subject matter.Read Full Review »
63
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Joe Klein's novel -- is a cynical satire of life on the campaign trail. It's harsh, blistering, and possesses an edge that the film, a warmhearted comedy/drama, lacks.Read Full Review »
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