Laura Fries Variety Jun 29, 2020

Director Frankenheimer provides a steady hand, faltering only in one or two forced scenes intended to convey Johnson's growing alienation both politically and personally.

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John Levesque Seattle Post-Intelligencer Jun 29, 2020

Drawing on a supremely intelligent screenplay by Daniel Giat, "Path to War" is another of those "important" films that would never make it in theaters today.

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Lesley M. Smith PopMatters Jun 29, 2020

It captures the enduring inability of U.S. politicians and military leaders to understand that the projection of unassailable power and unmatched technology could not guarantee triumph or even avert defeat.

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Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune Jun 29, 2020

It is painful and profound to watch a man choosing his own destruction in the belief that he can do nothing else, and these 2 3/4 hours capture that -- the heaviness of the head that wears the crown -- as eloquently as any film in recent memory.

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Jonathan Curiel San Francisco Chronicle Jun 29, 2020 4/4

Johnson's brash way of talking rarely revealed itself in public speeches of his day, but in "Path to War," Frankenheimer and actor Michael Gambon give us the real Johnson.

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People Staff People Magazine Jun 29, 2020

Alec Baldwin excelled as former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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Tom Shales Washington Post Jun 19, 2020

From whatever angle you approach it, though, "Path to War" is a tremendous achievement -- not as a history lesson but as a profoundly emotional experience.

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John Lui The Straits Times (Singapore) Jun 19, 2020 4/5

It offers a thrilling, clear and deeply instructive lesson in how a nation with all the top minds and best weapons lost a war.

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John Leonard New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 1, 2018

It's LBJ as King Lear instead of Big Bully, tendentious but absorbing, with Baldwin the pleasant surprise.

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Howard Rosenberg Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018

Directed confidently by John Frankenheimer, Path to War is a powerful expression of mourning.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Aug 1, 2015 B-

The well-produced political drama plays like the TV movie it is.

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