Quiz Show

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Critics' Reviews

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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
A supremely elegant and thoughtful parable. [14 September 1994, p. C11]Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Working from a superb script by Paul Attanasio, Redford has caught the way a show like Twenty-One offered a carny-barker version of the American Dream.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Staff(Not credited)
Redford blows the dust off a 35-year-old scandal about rigged TV quiz shows and makes it snap with up-to-the-minute relevance.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Quiz Show is engrossing, smart and morally complex. Nothing else out of Hollywood this year can hold a candle to it.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Robert Redford has directed Quiz Show as entertainment, history, and challenge.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
One of the reasons that Quiz Show is so extraordinary is because it spins a story as compelling on the personal level as on the national one.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
As taut, sleek and guiltily comfortable as the classic Chrysler automobile we see at the beginning, Quiz Show is built for entertaining road performance.Read Full Review »
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