All the President's Men 1976

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A spellbinding detective story. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The opening of the film, with Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) first stumbling over the story, is involving and sometimes exciting, but from then on it degenerates into confusion and repetition. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is a victory lap for American journalism -- the triumphant flip side to Network's self-loathing take on the media. Read more

Arthur Knight, Hollywood Reporter: While there's an undoubted fascination in all this, after a couple of hours it begins to wear thin. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It provides the most observant study of working journalists we're ever likely to see in a feature film. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Remarkably intelligent, working both as an effective thriller (even though we know the outcome of their investigations) and as a virtually abstract charting of the dark corridors of corruption and power. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Hal Holbrook is outstanding; this actor, herein in near-total shadow, is as compelling as he is in virtually every role played. Read more

Gary Arnold, Washington Post: Political commentators seem to feel that this All the President's Men will have a far-reaching political impact this year. I'd be more inclined to believe it if the film affected a provocative emotional tone. Pakula is just too cool under the collar. Read more