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89This political satire that's as fresh and exhilarating as anything we've seen come out of Hollywood in quite some time.
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90Warren Beatty sounds off angrily and shrewdly about politics, delivering what is possibly his best film and certainly his funniest and livliest.
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88Warren Beatty's Bulworth made me laugh -- and wince.
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88His movie isn't a surgical attack at this problem and that; it's a cluster bomb intended to reap destruction, make a mess and jolt all who see it to react.
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58It's a tease of a satire that never really follows through on its audacious premise.
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80Bulworth has the distinction of being the only summer movie that might make you think and for that, it definitely deserves ample praise.
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80There are extreme moments that lurch between inspired absurdity and near failure -- but as a ballsy movie about human politics with no correctness in sight, it's a triumph.
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80There are some cheap shots, and there's an argument to be made about whether the film is sending up stereotypes or simply perpetuating them. But for every dubious moment, there are plenty that connect.
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70One can be forgiven for leaving the theater feeling a modicum of hope, and for that we owe Warren Beatty something.
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60Bulworth shoots along with great vigor, and its non-politically correct jabs are occasionally exhilarating.
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70Frequently awkward, peppered with moments that make you shake your head, Bulworth's singular nature makes it a film that can't be shrugged off.
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80In a season of mechanized spectacle and brain-dead comedies, Bulworth is a brave and bracing exception.
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With all its hip-hop and jive, Bulworth may seem new-style -- but actually it's proffering a populism that Frank Capra would have loved.
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A brilliant and astounding black comedy.
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80A dizzying mixture of the sophisticated and the naive, the deft and the clumsy, Bulworth is overstuffed, excessive, erratic -- and essential.
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88It has the audacity that “Primary Colors” should have displayed, but was afraid to. Bulworth is willing to openly offend to get its point across. That's something that “Primary Colors” was nervous about doing.
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50As a movie, it's a disaster. As political speech, it's imprecise, shrill and sometimes clichéd, but it's also alive.
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100Beatty has fashioned a hilarious morality tale that delivers a surprisingly potent, angry message beneath the laughs.
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The movie hits the ground running, so Beatty the actor is forced to go all out from the start.
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80The film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming.
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63To his credit, Beatty has designed Bulworth along the classic lines of Shakespeare's Fool -- the antic truth-speaker who has the ear of the court.
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70Beatty himself is high wattage, revved up, sharp in his comic timing, gleaming with eagerness to put his film across. As director, he carries on from where he left off in “Reds;” he is sure and fluent, and occasionally he tips his hat to the past. [June 8, 1998]
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70Its best moments come from witnessing the Senator's inspired unraveling, not from watching where it will end.
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80Beatty's contribution to the ranks of recent political satire is bold, merciless and frequently very funny, and his performance is just plain fearless.
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88Warren Beatty's uproariously rude Bulworth is 90% triumph.
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90An uncommonly smart, sharp and irreverent American picture.
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80It's daring, deliberately offensive and, for a comedy, it has far more ideas in it than actual laughs.
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70This is a great liberal movie, which is to say, it will be loved most passionately by great liberals, and despised by the conservatives it contemptuously fails to notice.