Well Made

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2008)

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
**** (out of 4)
Extremely well made and compelling drama from director George Clooney about journalist Edward R. Murrow's (David Strathairn) fight to stop Senator Joseph McCarthy and his lies, which are branding innocent people Communist. While watching the film I started to feel that there was way too much (beautiful) style and not enough detail to the story but afterwards the story that was there really hit home so I have no problems calling this one of the best films of 2005. The performances by Strathairn, Clooney, Frank Langella, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson and Jeff Daniels are all wonderful and Clooney hits all the right marks with his direction. The beautiful B&W cinematography is some of the best I've seen in a long time. The only thing I didn't like is showing the singer throughout the film. The soundtrack was great but I really thought the singer took away from what was really going on.