Superb!

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2006)

OK. I love Clooney, Downey, Daniels, Langella and Strathairn and knew this would be good but I didn't know HOW good! I remember the events and remember seeing the programs in depiction as an eager kid in high school back in the 50s. I recall vividly the "Communist threat," the censure, the black lists, the name calling and the impact of political accusatory innuendo on people's lives. Careers could be smashed and lives devastated by finger pointing with little or no evidence. Murrow was one of the few who had the courage and will to meet it head on. Clooney has done such a superb job of bringing the tenor of that times to the present and it takes little insight to see the relevance of the lessons of those times to the events and circumstances of today. Already, I can hear the cries of the NeoCons, screaming that this is a pure "political" statement of a film and for once, I would have to agree with them. But, I would also recall the description of those time by Dashiell Hammett's girl friend, Lillian Hellman, as a "...time of scoundrels."