Trumbo
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  • Summary: Trumbo is a unique, star-studded film about Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and his heroic journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner. Set against the backdrop of tremendous political unrest, audience will be given a first, emotional account of how this turmoil affected one of Hollywood’s most prolific writers. Based on the play “Trumbo”, by his son Christopher, the film features brilliant readings of some of Trumbo’s extraordinary letters performed by an A list cast, interlaced with period and contemporary interviews, and, rare video shot by his family and friends (The Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Collapse

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    91
    Trumbo sexes up Trumbo's already dramatic story with a massive infusion of star power.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: John DeFore
    80
    An invigorating, funny, and moving portrait of a Hollywood hero.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    60
    Donald Sutherland's passionate rendition of a speech from Trumbo's 1971 film "Johnny Got His Gun" (based on his novel) is worth the price of admission.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    The misleading documentary Trumbo paints a golden nimbus of holiness around the onetime highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, Dalton Trumbo, an on-the-record hater of democracy, defender of authoritarian rule and avowed Communist.

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