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A work of unimpeachable integrity, George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck is a sharp little polemic chronicling TV news icon Edward R. Murrow's legendary 1954 on-air scuffle with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Clooney's second directorial effort, the film is a pointedly dry and distancing experience. It's the kind of movie you admire, but can't quite force yourself to love. Good thing there's so much here to admire.
McCarthy is glimpsed only in archival footage, slipped Zelig-style onto the CBS studio monitors. A wise choice, as younger audiences probably wouldn't believe any actor who carried on like such a slurring wildebeest. (Okay, maybe Gary Oldman could've pulled it off.) Unless you're Ann Coulter, Joe McCarthy amounts to easy pickings in this day and age. But Clooney's hunting bigger game.See the full content of this document
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Good Night, and Good Luck
A work of unimpeachable integrity, George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck is a sharp little polemic chronicling TV news icon Edward R. ...
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