That's Trumbo's message -- that the true victim was America.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Today few would dispute Trumbo's assessment of that very dark period: "The blacklist was a time of evil, and no one who survived it on either side came through untouched by evil."Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Trumbo is a terrific picture, a blend of interviews and archival footage and readings of Trumbo's letters and speeches.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Trumbo, a rousing documentary as ornery, orotund and captivating as its subject (1905-1976), is an anatomy of irony.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Trumbo never wavered in his belief that his persecution was only a horrible symptom. He understood the real victim of blacklist America was America itself.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Robert Wilonsky
The actors--most unshaven, wrinkled, so goddamned serious--steal the writer's movie, as they wring from his epistles every last drop of blood and sweat spilled by a man punished for believing his country was better than its behavior.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
An unconventional film about an unconventional man. Part documentary, part expertly staged readings, it focuses on the unquiet life and unforgettable words of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, someone who, as his son puts it, never had to go looking for trouble because it always came to him.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
What becomes clear is that Trumbo's humor is only one thing that helped him survive the professional and personal hardships of the blacklist, which drove more than one of his Hollywood friends to kill themselves and took a toll on Trumbo's children.Read Full Review »
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