• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: May 21, 2016
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 45
  2. Negative: 6 out of 45

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    May 23, 2016
    80
    Cranston delivers a titanic fill-the-screen turn, capturing the man’s bombast and sincerity in equal measure. In the process, he dwarfs his castmates.... Though it presents a captivating look at the nuts and bolts of high-stakes politicking, it suffers in such inevitable comparisons, in part because Roach’s direction is so stifling that the film feels small at the very moments it should be grand.
  2. 40
    The film version of Cranston's LBJ only comes to life when he's listening to other characters or silently brooding to himself (while voice-over narration articulates his fears and doubts); otherwise he's a Madam Tussaud's waxworks LBJ that can move and speak, a testament to latex craftsmanship and the careful study of newsreels. The bigger his LBJ is in this film, the less credible and interesting he is.
  3. Reviewed by: Dennis Perkins
    May 23, 2016
    67
    Cranston makes a meal of every scene he’s in, ticking off Johnson’s well-storied, outsized eccentricities with performer’s glee. ... The film’s 134-minute running time proceeds in fits and starts.