Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle
Robert Redford's exceptionally handsome and provocative Quiz Show manages a trick that few films even dare try -- to take a hard look at personal and public moral issues and still provide dazzling entertainment.
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The New York Times
A supremely elegant and thoughtful parable. [14 September 1994, p. C11]
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Entertainment Weekly
Working from a superb script by Paul Attanasio, Redford has caught the way a show like Twenty-One offered a carny-barker version of the American Dream.
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Rolling Stone
Staff(Not credited)
Redford blows the dust off a 35-year-old scandal about rigged TV quiz shows and makes it snap with up-to-the-minute relevance.
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Washington Post
Quiz Show is engrossing, smart and morally complex. Nothing else out of Hollywood this year can hold a candle to it.
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Variety
Robert Redford's handsome, smartly constructed new film stands likely to capture the imagination of the educated, culturally inclined public.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Although the stellar contributions to this supremely intelligent film are many, there's no mistake that the presence of director Redford dominates the film.
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| 88 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
One of those rare films that manages to be both terrifically entertaining and consistently thoughtful, it turns an apparently tame deception into a very rich metaphor.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Robert Redford has directed Quiz Show as entertainment, history, and challenge.
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ReelViews
One of the reasons that Quiz Show is so extraordinary is because it spins a story as compelling on the personal level as on the national one.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Robert Redford's best and richest directorial effort.
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Washington Post
As taut, sleek and guiltily comfortable as the classic Chrysler automobile we see at the beginning, Quiz Show is built for entertaining road performance.
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The New Yorker
Terrence Rafferty
The picture's real strength is its witty, vigorous evocation of the fifties media world.
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TV Guide
Staff(Not credited)
It's a blessedly old-fashioned, well-made and well-acted narrative.
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