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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBroadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the thing it does best is look into a certain kind of personality and a certain kind of relationship.
- 100EmpireEmpireIn a film tracing the endless battles between style and substance, Brooks delivers both in abundance.
- 100Boston GlobeBoston GlobeBroadcast News grows in your memory. It recalls an era when movies were made by, for and with three-dimensional characters you cared about. Let's hope it doesn't take James L. Brooks another four years to make another one. We can't wait that long. [25 Dec 1987, p.53]
- 90VarietyVarietyEnormously entertaining, Broadcast News is an inside look at the personal and professional lives of three TV journlists.
- 88TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA film whose "TV movie" feel is at once incredibly appropriate and a notable drawback, Broadcast News is nevertheless worthy adult entertainment.
- 88Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrBroadcast News is the crispest, classiest entertainment; it has what Hollywood has been missing. [16 Dec 1987, p.8]
- 80The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyMr. Brooks's screenplay overstates matters both at the beginning of the film and at the end, with a prologue that strains to be cute and an epilogue that is just unnecessary. In between, however, the movie is a sarcastic and carefully detailed picture of a world Mr. Brooks finds fascinating and also a little scary.
- Director Brooks masterfully interconnects this human triangle with the breakneck world of broadcasting -- the professional frenzy behind the news. He shifts the mood from romantic to farcical, the comedy from broad to subtle.
- 80Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonAs it turns out, big secrets aren't revealed in Broadcast News, but the film is so ingratiatingly high-spirited, and the performances so full of sass and vigor, that in the long run it doesn't really matter much.
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe film is full of relevant insights into the kinds of compromises, trade-offs, and combinations of skills and personalities that produce media, and the personal stories are deftly integrated.