Good Night and Good Luck (PG)
Published:
10:16 AM June 29, 2006
Updated:
9:15 PM February 22, 2021
George Clooney s second film as director sees him tackle 1950s American broadcast journalism and the real-life clash between newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The film is almost entirely about news and politics and i
George Clooney's second film as director sees him tackle 1950s American broadcast journalism and the real-life clash between newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The film is almost entirely about news and politics and is a fine piece of filmmaking: gripping, intelligent and unequivocal in its aims to defend freedom in the face of suffocation by the powers that be.
A fable for modern times. 4/5