Insider, The

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

May be the best movie of the year.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

With it's dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, The Insider offers Mann at his best -- blood up, unsanitized and unbowed.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

A marvelous ensemble cast and all the visceral impact and moment-to-moment tension of a fine thriller, together with the distinctive visual style of an art film.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Excellent acting, a stirring screenplay, and crisply intelligent directing make this fact-based movie a great human drama as well as a riveting and revealing look at crucially important social issues.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It's a terrific movie -- intelligent, magnificently acted, highly compelling as a thriller, and downright scary in its implications for the corporate-run world of the new millennium.

Slate David Edelstein

A big, overlong, and rather unwieldy piece of storytelling, but the story it has to tell is so vital that it cuts through all the dramaturgical muddiness. It's a terrific muckraking melodrama--it will get people fuming.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

Has the glorious look and immaculate technique we expect from Mann, along with a wealth of superb secondary performances.

Newsweek David Ansen

Reveals a chilling reality: how hard it is to tell a simple truth when big business doesn't want it told.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

A well-orchestrated nightmare that keeps you on edge until the very end.

Mr. Showbiz Richard T. Jameson

For two hours and 35 minutes it is absolutely riveting.

The New York Times Janet Maslin

Is still sleek, gripping entertainment with a raw-nerved, changeable camera style that helps to amplify its meaning.

Time Richard Corliss

The viewer almost has to be a journalist--or a good editor--to sniff out the meat under all the fat.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A dead-on tale of corporate power, courage, cowardice and how we live.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Almost cagily creating understated drama from high-stakes reality.

USA Today Mike Clark

At its best, hard-hitting grown-up cinema (rare these days) and a movie blessed with a villain (Big Tobacco) for which all gloves can be removed and heaved into the next county.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Power to absorb, entertain and anger.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

This is a first-class muckraking melodrama: an admirable picture.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

A big, bold movie that gets at undeniable truths about the way no one, no matter how powerful, is immune from manipulation.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Earnest, smart, handsome, well-acted and made with mastery.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

May be pumped-up, but it's rarely boring

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

The final product is great populist entertainment and may even leave audiences with a feeling of comfort, however fleeting, in the knowledge that corrupt corporations don't always win

Film.com Robert Horton

It's great that this movie exists.

TNT RoughCut Tom Cappello

Overall, a solid piece of film that not only entertains but also educates.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

A beautifully shot, well-acted movie that manages to make a complicated, real-life story without much drama feel like a thriller.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

Tells an important story about a story that might never have been told at all.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Few American directors drive this wedge between mind and gut as masterfully as Michael Mann.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Pacino and Crowe are at their best, but the supporting cast also shines.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A good but far from great movie because it portrays truth telling in America as far more imperiled than it is.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

A meticulously assembled dramatization of a grossly controversial moment in TV history.

TV Guide Ken Fox

An exciting dramatization of the strange events that marked the turning of the legal tide against Big Tobacco, and a particularly dark moment in the annals of CBS News.

Variety Todd McCarthy

A borderline pretentious, overly inflated picture.

Film.com Sean Means

The insider's view of celebrity in The Insider grabs the spotlight from the real story of Wigand's courage.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

A big, dark juggernaut of a movie about a big, dark juggernaut of a subject.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's all a little too polished, a little too smug to be ranked up there as one of the great journalism films.