Bulworth

Name: Bulworth
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: May 19, 1998
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Halle Berry, Warren Beatty

1998

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | Release Date: May 19, 1998 | R

Starring: Halle Berry, Warren Beatty

Summary: A 'tragic-farce,' Bulworth takes a comedic look at race and class in the United States, campaign finance, and the power of big money and media in America. [Twentieth Century Fox]

Director: Warren Beatty

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 108 min

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Edward Guthmann

Beatty has fashioned a hilarious morality tale that delivers a surprisingly potent, angry message beneath the laughs. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

This political satire that's as fresh and exhilarating as anything we've seen come out of Hollywood in quite some time. Read full review

James Berardinelli

It has the audacity that “Primary Colors” should have displayed, but was afraid to. Bulworth is willing to openly offend to get its point across. That's something that “Primary Colors” was nervous about doing. Read full review

Chris Gore

Bulworth has the distinction of being the only summer movie that might make you think and for that, it definitely deserves ample praise. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

This is a great liberal movie, which is to say, it will be loved most passionately by great liberals, and despised by the conservatives it contemptuously fails to notice. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Beatty himself is high wattage, revved up, sharp in his comic timing, gleaming with eagerness to put his film across. As director, he carries on from where he left off in “Reds;” he is sure and fluent, and occasionally he tips his hat to the past. [June 8, 1998]

Barbara Shulgasser

The movie hits the ground running, so Beatty the actor is forced to go all out from the start. Read full review

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Spangle

Mar 9, 2016

A brilliant political satire, Bulworth is hysterical and incredibly politically poignant. Criticizing all elements of the American political system, Bulworth gleefully pulls back the cover of how little these politicians care about anybody who does not make them rich. Warren Beatty isA brilliant political satire, Bulworth is hysterical and incredibly politically poignant. Criticizing all elements of the American political system, Bulworth gleefully pulls back the cover of how little these politicians care about anybody who does not make them rich. Warren Beatty is brilliant in this off-beat and quirky comedy, as are Halle Berry and Don Cheadle. The writing is great and the characterizations equally so. However, my favorite part was certainly the little touches throughout. I don't really have a specific example, but images in the background or a small reference here and there that were absolutely fantastic. In its use of sight gags, Bulworth is similar to an Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker, 80s comedy, except politically focused. Overall, Bulworth is a fantastic film that really skewers the government, its lies, and how much it really sells its soul to get rich.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Jul 29, 2022

Despite being a film that is almost 25 years old, by that time Bulworth wasn't really going into uncharted territory about how those willing to shell out anything for influence and power are the true masters of politics and power in the US.

It's a film that explores the discomfort with theDespite being a film that is almost 25 years old, by that time Bulworth wasn't really going into uncharted territory about how those willing to shell out anything for influence and power are the true masters of politics and power in the US.

It's a film that explores the discomfort with the failures of the system and even within the humorous spectrum, makes more than one pointed criticism of it.
Perhaps not everything goes Warren Beatty's way, but the criticism is far from inaccurate.

It certainly ends up being messier than I would've liked and has some areas of the narrative that feel pointless, especially Beatty's character's romance with Halle Berry's character, but overall it pulls through just fine. Maybe not well enough, but as far as it goes it's completely watchable.… Expand

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Compi24

Apr 10, 2015

What starts out as an apt satire on the politician's role in American society spirals off into a muddled, politically sketchy head-scracther, featuring God-awful ADR/mixing and a fundamentally unsatisfying conclusion.

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