Broadcast News 1987

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The movie is a sarcastic and carefully detailed picture of a world Mr. Brooks finds fascinating and also a little scary. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: One of the best entertainments of 1987. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Broadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the thing it does best is look into a certain kind of personality and a certain kind of relationship. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: All the performers are tops. Read more

Stephen Garrett, Time Out: Underpinning what is a charming, protean love-triangle is a serious statement about the function, value, and direction of television news. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Enormously entertaining. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: The film is so ingratiatingly high-spirited, and the performances so full of sass and vigor, that in the long run it doesn't really matter much. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Brooks' observations are as keen as Woody Allen's but without the neurotic narcissism. Read more