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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review:
In one of the well-chose news excerpts from the time, NBC's Tom Brokaw laments: "No one likes what's going on, and there's no real winners. We have gone from shock to discomfort, now to a combination of anger, depression and shame." All of these emotions are palpable in the riveting docudrama. [4-17 Apr 2016, p.20]
Apr 15, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Like the tremendously successful “American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson,” HBO’s new film, the ultra-sharp Confirmation, is a look back at the muddled ’90s, when racism and sexism were shockingly overt, and one could be used to undercut or confuse the other on the public stage.
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Apr 12, 2016
Season 1 Review:
While it runs a bit long and can get bogged down with minor details that detract from the overall plot, because it touches on so many important issues--race relations, gender equity, political maneuvering--Confirmation makes for a fascinating look at an important moment from a turbulent decade.
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Apr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
At times Famuyiwa is so concerned with including the myriad supporting players that the film can be more of a competent procedural than a riveting, insightful exploration of a crucial moment in American politics. But those worries are mostly tempered by the slow reveal of the film’s true agenda.
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Apr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Washington provides a strong sense of the woman and her complex reactions. Pierce, too, is just right here, with his bottled-up anger. Around them are many small but fine portraits--Alison Wright (Martha on “The Americans”) as Thomas’s supportive wife, Bill Irwin as a nasty Danforth, and Treat Williams as Kennedy, hobbled by his own past. Like Confirmation, they’re sharply etched.
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Apr 11, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The only part of the otherwise sophisticated Confirmation that rings false is its closing chyron, which indicates that Hill's case emboldened victims of harassment to speak out and factored into 1992's congressional "year of the woman," in which female candidates won more seats than ever before.
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Apr 15, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Confirmation isn’t particularly illuminating except for viewers with no recollection of the events. Confirmation is still a worthwhile film packed with impressive performances. Washington is perfectly cast as Hill, though there’s considerable irony in watching her go up against the White House that employed Judy Smith (Kristen Ariza), the inspiration for Washington’s star-making role on Scandal, as its crisis manager.
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Uncle BarkyApr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Confirmation is an effective movie, although certainly not a great one, in terms of reconstructing how Hill was first persuaded to come forward and then left distraught, defeated and convinced it was “a mistake.” Washington and Pierce are both strong in these pivotal roles.
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Apr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
With a running time of under two hours, it has no room for the detail or nuance, let alone the humor, that made “The People v. O.J.” so addictive. But Confirmation succeeds in making us re-examine attitudes from the vantage point of a quarter century, and also in reminding us that politics is an ugly business.
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Apr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Judged on its own, Confirmation is solidly in the middle range of meat-and-potatoes HBO historical movies. There’s nothing wrong with it, nor will it do much to surprise you. It tells a sober, linear story and doesn’t develop its characters beyond headline-news figures.
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Apr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
What’s fascinating--and disappointing--about Confirmation is that we somehow manage to learn more about Hill in the recreation of scenes that are essentially dramatic re-enactments of C-Span clips you can watch right now on YouTube. That leaves about an hour and a half of bloodless storytelling that ping-pongs from law offices to congressional corridors to Thomas’ living room.
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