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Bulworth
EMAILPRINT20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Warren Beatty (also story)
Jeremy Pikser
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 19, 1998
DVD: March 16, 1999
Running Time: 108 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive strong language and some drug content
Starring Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, and Paul Sorvino
A 'tragic-farce,' Bulworth takes a comedic look at race and class in the United States, campaign finance, and the power of big money and media in America. (Twentieth Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Beatty has fashioned a hilarious morality tale that delivers a surprisingly potent, angry message beneath the laughs.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Warren Beatty sounds off angrily and shrewdly about politics, delivering what is possibly his best film and certainly his funniest and livliest.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
An uncommonly smart, sharp and irreverent American picture.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
This political satire that's as fresh and exhilarating as anything we've seen come out of Hollywood in quite some time.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
His 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Warren Beatty's Bulworth made me laugh -- and wince.
Read Full Review >Film.com John Hartl
There 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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Chris Gore
Bulworth has the distinction of being the only summer movie that might make you think and for that, it definitely deserves ample praise.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
A dizzying mixture of the sophisticated and the naive, the deft and the clumsy, Bulworth is overstuffed, excessive, erratic -- and essential.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ted Fry
There 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.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's daring, deliberately offensive and, for a comedy, it has far more ideas in it than actual laughs.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Beatty's contribution to the ranks of recent political satire is bold, merciless and frequently very funny, and his performance is just plain fearless.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Richard T. Jameson
In a season of mechanized spectacle and brain-dead comedies, Bulworth is a brave and bracing exception.
The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Beatty 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]
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Frequently awkward, peppered with moments that make you shake your head, Bulworth's singular nature makes it a film that can't be shrugged off.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
This 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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Its best moments come from witnessing the Senator's inspired unraveling, not from watching where it will end.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
One can be forgiven for leaving the theater feeling a modicum of hope, and for that we owe Warren Beatty something.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Peter Rainer
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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
To 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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
Bulworth shoots along with great vigor, and its non-politically correct jabs are occasionally exhilarating.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's a tease of a satire that never really follows through on its audacious premise.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
As a movie, it's a disaster. As political speech, it's imprecise, shrill and sometimes clichéd, but it's also alive.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
The movie hits the ground running, so Beatty the actor is forced to go all out from the start.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Pat C. gave it a 6:
There is no reason this film had to deteriorate from refreshing political banter into the inevitability of no good deed going unpunished. Though Bulworth is initially pushed to the brink of suicide by conservative elements, the film is fair & balanced, justifying both the good and bad qualities of a so-human charismatic renaissance liberal while reaffirmating the universal truth that the opposition is somehow the root cause. Eventually the catharsis is concluded but the mania remains. In the end we are let down by a character who, while representing the rare sacred truth, turns out to not be the genuine article. But hey that's politics, or movie making, or both. The system is beyond either redemption or condemnation. It is just what happens when human nature is the law of the land. To love hearing truth as one of several variables is wisdom, but to try to change the world by publicizing the truth has a deranged quality because we cannot be certain of the truth's correct renditiion.
Cwech gave it a 10:
A great political comentary and one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The movie hits the spot on the issues facing America today, the Democrats are in the pockets of the insurance companies, and the Republicans are even worse, no wonder all the wrong things are happening to America. This movie is what would happen if a Senator told the truth.
Kenneth gave it a 0:
This movie is THE reason a rating of 0 is a possibility. I have never walked out on a film, but should have on this one. There are no redeeming qualities about this film. Don't walk away... run!
Xavier X. gave it a 10:
Bulworth was f..king badass!
John Doe gave it a 10:
It was bad ass.
Jack gave it an 8:
The politics are well-meaning but immature. As a movie it's funny, un-PC, and alive, despite the flaws.
Andrew W. gave it a 10:
Ignore Wade! Absolutely brilliant.
