The Report
Amazon Studios | Release Date: November 15, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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22
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneNov 18, 2019
The Report has purpose and grip, as does any film that carries the stamp of Adam Driver. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 15, 2019
The Report is a cool, dry look at the facts. Read full review
58
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerNov 15, 2019
While the film’s intentions are noble, and its story worth retelling, it struggles throughout to lend a lasting weight to its straightforward plotting. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 15, 2019
The Report is also surprisingly free of tension, given the subject matter; if you’re going to experience any anxiety, it’ll probably come from a sense of worry over whether all of this is going to be on the final exam. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 14, 2019
However crucial and opportune in its truth-seeking and depictions of political trickery (Burns could hardly have known his film would plop into theaters alongside the impeachment hearings for President Trump), The Report is too often dramatically frozen, its emotions stubbornly internal. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyNov 13, 2019
It’s never a good sign when the most dramatic scene in a movie owes its power to C-SPAN footage. That’s the case with The Report. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartNov 12, 2019
The Report, true to its no-nonsense name, does the admirable work of trying to interest viewers in the way that bureaucracy can be used to hide the most terrible truths. Alas, the movie gets as buried in paper-pushing as its characters do. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 11, 2019
This may be the world’s first movie micro-targeted to several thousand of the people who live and/or work in Washington, and no one else. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith UhlichNov 9, 2019
In the end, it can’t help but sentimentalize the better angels that supposedly reside in the land of liberty’s flawed human fabric. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghNov 21, 2019
The report is important. Its findings and the attempts to undermine them and the investigators, shouldn’t be forgotten. That The Report tries to keep these lessons in a fickle public’s consciousness is a good thing. If only anything committed to screen here were memorable. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 19, 2019
There are occasional visual flourishes — a nightmarish PowerPoint presentation ending with a slide about mock burials — that hint at the better-balanced film The Report might have been. But mainly we’re pinned down by a firehose-stream of didactic outrage. Read full review
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