Bob Roberts

After a summer in Hollywood fantasyland, at last we have an American movie that rattles our cage-and pokes a sharp spear into the body po...

For all its flaws, Bob Roberts is a singular achievement, a political film in a time when moviegoers want anything but. It’s a bold...

A smart, funny pseudo-documentary.

Filmed in the mock-documentary style pioneered by acknowledged mentor Robert Altman, it does for baby-kissing phonies what This Is Spinal Tap did f...

Watching it might be an education for some voters, who will recognize in the movie political techniques they see being practiced all the time in re...

Audacious, bracing, uncommonly timely, Bob Roberts would seem almost impossible to pull off. So it is very much to Robbins' credit as a filmma...

Bob Roberts is a triumph in every respect: The editing is glorious, the use of music dazzling, the nebulous ending very true to life. [18 ...

This Tim Robbins-helmed political satire about demogougery makes for an appropriate election-season re-release.

Whether we find Our Bob appealing or anathema, it is a measure of Robbins' exceptional success that no one can doubt how seductive a candidate...

Robbins’s debut as a director is exceptionally accomplished. He shrewdly balances his sense of purpose with a flair for mischief.

It does have flaws, but its confidence and courage in going against the grain of an increasingly conservative America are impressive.

Robbins’s gutsy directorial debut isn’t seamless art, but so what? After a summer in Hollywood fantasyland, at last we have an Ame...

A very funny, sometimes prescient satire of American politics, and of the comparatively small, voting portion of the electorate that makes a B...

Bob Roberts not only invigorates a climate polluted by the usual presidential campaign bombast; it quickens the hearts of the disillusioned by...

This Tim Robbins-helmed political satire about demogougery makes for an appropriate election-season re-release.

Many smaller details also hit home, and though it certainly is exaggerated all over the place, the film is dead on and plays even better now than i...

Robbins is attempting too much here, but the 70 percent or so that he brings off borders on delightful.

Both a stimulating social satire and, for thinking people, a depressing commentary on the devolution of the American political system.

I like Bob Roberts - I like its audacity, its freedom to say the obvious things about how our political process has been debased – but if...

This nose-thumbing mock documentary is so prescient, so astonishingly up-to-the-minute, it creates the eerie effect of having been ripped from tomo...

An over-strung last act aside, this is funny, brilliant and sickening all at the same time.