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LBJ Reviews

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Gianmarco Farfán Cinencuentro Sep 26, 2023
LBJ is a valuable approach to one of the lesser known presidential periods in the US in which the legal and political focus was given to a transcendental issue such as the Civil Rights Act... [Full review in Spanish]
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Kip Mooney Fresh Fiction Aug 10, 2021 C
Settles for lionization when the man's life demands to be explored in all its contradictions.
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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 13, 2020 3.5/4.0
Richard Jenkins turns in his usual winning performance.
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Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review May 19, 2020
f for no other reason, the changing dynamic of the relationship between Johnson and Russell makes the movie worth checking out.
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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Apr 16, 2020 3/5
Won't be his (Woody Harrelson) fault if you find this endearing, if this slight political biopic falls short. This is two stories for the price of one.
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Fernando Bernal CinemanĂ­a (Spain) Nov 27, 2018 1.5/5
Here the physical and the verbal prevail over the analytic. This ends up placing the film in the category of conventional biopic. [Full review in Spanish]
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Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) Nov 26, 2018
Rob Reiner, in creative decline since the mid-nineties, approaches the personality of Lyndon B. Johnson in his best film in years. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 16, 2018
LBJ is an eye-opening and sensitive look at a man who looked everyone in the eye and fought with conviction and respect to bring a nation together during one of its darkest moments.
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Lyn Potter Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Aug 27, 2018 3/5
Despite the prosthetics applied to Woody Harrelson's face he does not really look like LBJ but this does not detract from a convincing interpretation...
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Francesca Rudkin New Zealand Herald Aug 9, 2018 3/5
Harrelson captures Johnson's dogged, hardworking approach to politics... He injects pace, energy and colour into a familiar storytelling approach that flicks back and forth across the period.
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James Croot The Post NZ Aug 8, 2018 3.5/5
So while providing some enlightening insight into the 36th President ("a sensitive man with an enormous ego," as this film's JFK puts it), LBJ never truly engrosses.
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Jim Schembri 3AW Jun 21, 2018 3/5
This early-days biopic isn't quite as good as the Bryan Cranston film All the Way but, along with Tom Wilkinson's performance in Selma, it continues Hollywood's crusade of recasting LBJ's public image.
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Stephen Romei The Australian Jun 1, 2018 3/5
While the shooting of JFK is the dark shadow of this movie, what unfolds on screen is less about the 35th president than the man who replaced him.
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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Jun 1, 2018 3/5
[Woody] Harrelson gives an impressionistic performance. He doesn't look much like LBJ, even after the make-up, nor can he bring his voice to the same low register, but he understands the coyote cunning of the man.
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David 'Mad Dog' Bradley Adelaide Review May 31, 2018 5/10
An odd, stilted affair with a curiously distanced feel.
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Erin Free FILMINK (Australia) May 28, 2018
...LBJ moves at a fast, highly entertaining clip...
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Robert Kojder Flickering Myth Dec 6, 2017 2/5
When the film isn't cracking jokes the film explores Johnson's desire to be liked by the public and fears of rejection but doesn't go far enough to ensure compelling results
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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Nov 26, 2017 2.5/4
A middle-of-the-road yet somewhat entertaining drama...
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Susan Granger SSG Syndicate Nov 14, 2017 6/10
Woody Harrelson delivers a powerhouse performance in this straightforward, solid political drama.
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Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue Nov 10, 2017
... a consistently compelling history lesson, which puts the spotlight on a man forced to navigate the country through one of the most pivotal periods of the last century.
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