Clooney's masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2005)

"Good Night, and Good Luck" is a truly brilliant film, one that will be remembered for years to come as the movie that firmly established George Clooney as one of the top names in quality Hollywood film making. This starkly realistic approach to the story of Edward R. Murrow's on air battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy is more than just great drama, or even a great history lesson, but an important and timeless story that draws uncanny parallels to the problems we face in our world today. The cast is uniformly excellent, lead by David Strathairn in a breakout performance as Murrow, and George Clooney as producer Fred Friendly. The script is witty and profound, never beating you over the head with rhetoric, but getting it's message across loud and clear. "We cannot stand in fear of each other." In a time when our country is so divided on issues of right and wrong, and on what it means to be a patriot, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a welcome reminder of the true meaning of freedom.