Bobby
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: November 17, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
17
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Why such a structurally scattered movie should hang together at all is a mystery. That it does more than that, that it works brilliantly, is a miracle, or at the very least the product of unquantifiable causes. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
It's a sideways view of a national trauma. The large cast includes standout performances from such unlikelies as Demi Moore, playing an alcoholic crooner, and Estevez himself, as her long-suffering husband. Everyone in this film is powerful. Read full review
91
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
For all its unevenness, Bobby is a powerful, poignant movie and its ending -- played over a long excerpt of one of RFK's most compassionate speeches, voiced with none of the cliches of political rhetoric -- was, for me, the movie year's single most devastating sequence. Read full review
83
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
The film's impact and poignancy are undeniable. Read full review
75
PremiereScott Warren
Alll in all, however, Estevez has pulled together the best political drama, fiction or otherwise, in recent memory. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Though Estevez's achievement doesn't quite live up to his ambitions -- the climax of Altman's "Nashville" (1975) evokes the same brutal loss of innocence to more shattering effect -- it still contains enough powerful moments to balance the weaker sections. Read full review
70
VarietyDeborah Young
Emilio Estevez's Bobby is a passionate outcry for peace and justice in America that becomes deeply involving by the final climactic scene. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Bobby, even if it suffers from a few silly scenes, gets more right than it does wrong. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
So keenly felt and so deeply imagined I couldn't help but be moved, even grateful for its bleeding-heart nostalgia. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
The movie isn't about Kennedy; rather, Kennedy is the sun around which all the other planets of the film revolve. And like some epic Louis B. Mayer picture from the Thirties, Bobby has a thousand stars in its galaxy, some of them great (Fishburne, Rodríguez), some of them not (Wood, Hunt), and one of them brilliant (Hopkins). Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Despite its flaws, its intriguing premise leaves us haunted by thoughts of "What if?" Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
This is simply too vast a task for a filmmaker as inexperienced as Estevez. Compared with, say, Robert Altman's similar but far more complex "Nashville," Bobby mostly comes off as a Hollywood public service announcement: passionate, righteous and strikingly removed from reality. Read full review
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