Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times 2011

Michael Kinsley, New York Times: It flits from topic to topic, character to character, explaining almost nothing. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: It's engrossing viewing in the moment. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Ultimately, Rossi accomplishes something meaningful: capturing the sense of a workplace during a time of great transition, and, simply by showing us the day-to-day grunt work of finding a story, argues for the future of an institution. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: All these angles and stories are fascinating -- and the year-in-the-life concept allows room for them -- but Page One has the distracted quality of a news junkie's Twitter feed. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The film is interesting and at times enlightening, but it's all over the map. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The pure process of teasing out a story and getting it into accurately reported shape is fascinating to watch and more collaborative than you would expect. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: As an avid media watcher, I didn't come away from this with any new insights, but the movie is a pretty good snapshot of the daily newspaper business in transition and turmoil. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: By treating the Times as a valuable relic rather than an adaptive organism, Rossi does his subject a disservice. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Carr is a marvelous camera subject and the only newspaperman in the movie who provides a temperamental link to the old "Front Page" days. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: If you're reading this article, chances are you have at least a passing interest in the role and value of newspapers. You like original reporting and writing enough to pay for it, online or on newsprint. And you'd probably enjoy Page One. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Page One is entertaining enough, but for a film concerned with the value of news, it offers little that's actually new. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's not quite the same thrill as glimpsing the man behind the curtain of the great and powerful Oz, but for journalism junkies, the fascination of Page One: Inside The New York Times is something like that. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A film promising to take us behind the scenes of the Times for a year should show us more of the rationale behind the paper's big choices instead of viewing them from the remove of reporters. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Watching "Page One: Inside the New York Times" is like talking to a smart person with a severe case of attention deficit disorder: A lot of what they say is intriguing, but you wish they could stick to the point. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Even if the movie fails to truly capture the inner workings of a newspaper and the amount of work required to print an issue every day, it's still a highly entertaining snapshot of a culture in the midst of a rapid transformation... Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: It ignores the many other things the paper does well, such as foreign, financial, and national-affairs reporting, and Rossi misses the underbrush, the secret life and murmured music of the place. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The documentary is especially interesting to anyone concerned about journalism, communications and technology. And occasionally, it's especially frustrating, too. Read more

Bob Mondello, NPR: Page One is an insider's view, but if it isn't raking up any muck, it's not a love letter either. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This terrific tale of an establishment in transition ultimately plays like "All the President's Men," with the intrigue coming from inside the building. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Basically a carefully airbrushed and authorized portrait of the Gray Lady during 14 months when there was serious speculation about the paper's impending demise. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Page One centers around the Times' media desk, all these big, breaking stories - Iraq, WikiLeaks - come and go, offering drama and distraction, but little in the way of coherence and closure. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I enjoyed the film very much. It was a visceral pleasure to see a hard-boiled guy like David Carr at its center. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: For those of us who read - on smudgy paper or a battery-powered screen - Page One is a vital, indispensable hell-raiser. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's full of juicy, chewy nuggets for journalists, journalist-haters and news junkies. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: For what it's worth, it's an accurate portrait. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: Page One, Andrew Rossi's informative, timely, but never quite revelatory documentary about the financial struggles at the New York Times, has the almost-greatness of an opportunity missed. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This film functions as a countdown timer to the doomsday when all the news that's fit to print becomes unfit for short attention spans. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: In journalism parlance, we have a dozen or so sidebars crowding out a fabulous front-page feature. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: 'Page One: Inside the New York Times' is sanguine about change. It describes it, captures it, but doesn't lament it. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: A fascinating study of a newspaper doing its best to not just survive but to continue to do so with excellence while the world tilts beneath the venerable broadsheet. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: This efficiently assembled primer hardly counts as a revelatory dispatch from the old-vs.-new-media frontlines, but its ideas will engross anyone for whom the viability of traditional newsgathering remains a matter of pressing significance. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Will Page One lead American kids to that golden city behind the pay wall on their iPad? Not sure about that, but the movie is at least someone's answered prayer. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The movie is a clear-eyed and engrossing look at an important subject. Read more