Paterno
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 7, 2018
User Score
4.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 24
  3. Negative: 10 out of 24

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  1. amheretojudge
    Apr 11, 2018
    5
    why are they talking about him..

    Paterno There isn't much to look up to in this plot, no matter how much impact it creates on screen the characters are left off far away disconnected from the audience which is never acceptable especially on such character driven feature. Barry Levinson; the director, tries too hard on executing the anticipated vision but fails to deliver it. And if    why are they talking about him..

    Paterno

    There isn't much to look up to in this plot, no matter how much impact it creates on screen the characters are left off far away disconnected from the audience which is never acceptable especially on such character driven feature. Barry Levinson; the director, tries too hard on executing the anticipated vision but fails to deliver it. And if anything that helps one survive this feature, it is Al Pacino and his brilliant portrayal that is supported with a good cast. Paterno is plausible on some aspects but is piled up by this raw script whose attempt to go in detail on facts leads to an informative art rather than being entertaining one.    … Expand
  2. imthenoob
    Jan 16, 2019
    4
    Pacino does a great job but the film does little to offer any new insights into the man as he is dealing with the falling out of the scandal that brought down the college he built up. Instead, He comes off as a man who cares little about how things affected everyone else until he has to deal with his own mortality. And I wasn't a fan of how Paterno tried to put Joe in a better light thanPacino does a great job but the film does little to offer any new insights into the man as he is dealing with the falling out of the scandal that brought down the college he built up. Instead, He comes off as a man who cares little about how things affected everyone else until he has to deal with his own mortality. And I wasn't a fan of how Paterno tried to put Joe in a better light than what he really was: He wasn't some ill-informed man that possibly knew more than he did, Which is what they tried to portrait in the film. He was a man that repeatedly covered up a scandal in order to save his own skin and the legacy he built.… Expand

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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Richard Roeper
    Dec 14, 2018
    88
    Unsettling and riveting and scathing.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Apr 9, 2018
    50
    The film is watchable, certainly, but also wayward. Its effects feel scattered, its points lost as the story looks here, looks there; Paterno has many things to show you, but less to say.
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  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Apr 9, 2018
    78
    It’s an engaging (and, perhaps to some defenders of Joe Paterno, it will be an enraging) film that explores character, the politics of college athletics and the value of local journalism in a style that’s more process piece thriller than it is anything like a biopic given how “Paterno” concentrates on a short period in the coach’s life.
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