Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
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  • Summary: Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a crucial role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He wrote the Republican Party’s winning playbook which the McCain campaign is currently using. (Interpositive Media)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Steve Winn
    100
    For a film that depends so heavily on talking heads, it has both a dramatic arc and a sense of character development.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    80
    A hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted documentary about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    60
    Less persuasive is Forbes's perfunctory, psychologically thin rummage through Atwater's childhood for a traumatic event that would explain his utter ruthlessness.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    A documentary that uses against Atwater images of lynch mobs, decades-old racist comments of his onetime boss Strom Thurmond, and a clip of Bryant Gumbel calling him "the architect of the evil campaign."

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