Fair Game
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: November 5, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireKim NewmanMar 5, 2011
In the filmography of liberal-skewing, Bush-era true stories, this is a measured, persuasive item. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearNov 3, 2010
Then Plame's cover gets blown, and so does the film's; suddenly, the clunky melodrama that had been lurking in the shadows starts hogging the spotlight. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianShawn LevyNov 4, 2010
Fair Game, a murky potboiler based on memoirs by both Plame and Wilson, makes a hash of these piquant ingredients. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaNov 6, 2010
An emotionally inert film that never pulls viewers into the spiraling web of deceit that the couple face. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithNov 5, 2010
Fair Game stars three imposing performers -- Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sean Penn's lavish and intemperate hair, a fuming gusher of crazy-ass Sweeney Todd locks that dominates every scene. I couldn't tear my eyes from it, maybe because I couldn't maintain focus on anything else in this histrionic and shamelessly misleading wonk-work. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 4, 2010
Most of the scenes depicting the couple's domestic life are borderline-banal, and they miniaturize the political drama that plays out partly in public, partly in the shadows but almost always in a middle distance just beyond emotional reach. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 4, 2010
Fair Game takes one of the more shameful sub-chapters in modern US politics - and turns it into a strident, condescending Hollywood melodrama. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick PinkertonNov 2, 2010
Penn's lachrymosity and hotheaded indignity seem cartooned against Watts's contained conviction-though more incongruous couples have certainly existed-but the film's assertion of Plame and Wilson as real people rather than characters consists mostly of draining them of anything compelling. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin ChangNov 1, 2010
Fair Game serves up impeccable politics with a bit too much righteous outrage and not quite enough solid drama. Read full review
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