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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 6

  Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 2

  "maybe things have changed."
  "what's changed?"
  "you mean since this morning?"
  "no, i mean since whenever."

  corporate interests have never (and will never) not come at the expense of our own, and here mann richly dramatizes the crushing pressures, lasting damages and sheer difficulty inherent to resisting them. are we running out of heroes or are they being systematically broken down? is there even anything left for them to save?

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★★

  "No, you fucked you. Don't invert stuff." When we realized we'd corporatized everything. Analog's last stand.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 11

  Thrilling, beautiful, moving, a modern masterpiece about the real heroes who made cigarettes even better and funner to smoke.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 10

  80

  Michael Mann, along with master DP Dante Spinotti, is at the top of his game as an image-maker here. Blooming clouds, with the color being a sharp tint of blue, or a driving range peppered with spots of golf balls. It's also what he emphasizes in even the most traditional moments - like the scene where the camera lingers on a freighter in a river while Jeffery Wigand is contemplating his current situation. Even at over two and a half hours, this epic of corporate malaise and journalistic integrity (or lack thereof) is tightly-wound, and completely riveting. An all-star cast giving their best while Mann finds a poetic danger in once again pushing against the systems that confine us. Nowadays, this type of movie is made by a hack nobody and forgotten as soon as the Academy Awards ceremony is over, but this is quality work, front to back.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★½

  al pacino is my husband... I would do anything for him... my taurus king... the love of my life

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  Review by Nakul ★★★★★ 4

  “Mike Wallace: Who are these people?
  
  
  Lowell Bergman: Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?”
  
  
  
  

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  Review by Scott Anderson ★★★★★ 13

  When The Insider was released in 1999, I was fifteen years old, literally half my life ago. At the time I didn't really understand the many aspects of true film appreciation, but on a purely straightforward basis of embracing entertainment I had fallen in love with this work about thirty minutes into my first viewing. Those feelings continued to blossom until the very last frame. After about a decade since my last revisit of the film, I needed a reminder as to why I still held it in such high esteem. I vividly recalled certain sequences that felt important, but I couldn't quite put the pieces together as to why they still lingered in my mind. Tonight, with this viewing,…

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  Review by Robert Franco ★★★★★ 3

  is it a five star picture? i don’t know. it’s hard to say what i think is a 5 star picture anymore. but it’s certainly a 5 in my heart. rarely do you see this kind of nobility displayed in a film. so when you finally see it, it moves you greatly. 

  happy 82nd birthday to al pacino, my favorite actor of all time.

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  Review by Michael Mann Facts ★★★★★ 1

  You had to be there…

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★

  The story of a man who only wanted to report accurate news

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 2

  corporations as infections.