• Release Date: Feb 28, 2003
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: This documentary captures the unlikely connection of three men -- a U.S. president, a discredited author and an underground publisher -- whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a book.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. The movie should fascinate anyone interested in politics, publishing, and the uneasy marriage between big money and mass communication.
  2. 80
    Here is a rich tale of our times, very well told with an appropriate minimum of means.
  3. A documentary whose content might possibly have further reach than the book.
  4. 50
    Isn't a particularly well-assembled documentary, but the queasy, hypnotic power of its story and subjects makes its technical shortcomings forgivable.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4

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