Good Night and Good Luck Reviews

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 7:30pm

Per Adam Feldman, embargo lifts at 11:30

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 11:11pm

Very positive from AMNY

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 11:31pm

Negative From TimeOut

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:01am

NYT Critic's Pick from Green

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/theater/good-night-and-good-luck-review.html?searchResultPosition=1

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:02am

Three stars from The Guardian

Good Night, and Good Luck review – George Clooney’s Broadway debut never quite lands

Winter Garden Theatre, New York

The actor-director brings his 2005 drama to the stage, now playing the lead role, but while it’s timely and nicely staged, it feels stiff

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr/03/good-night-good-luck-review-george-clooney

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:03am

Positive From Hollywood Reporter

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:03am

NY Stage Review

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK: MOVIE-TO-STAGE-TO-VIDEO

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in this stage adaptation of the 2005 film which he directed, co-wrote and appeared in.

https://nystagereview.com/2025/04/03/good-night-and-good-luck-movie-to-stage-to-video/

 

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK: GEORGE CLOONEY MAKES STARTLING BROADWAY BOW

By David Finkle

★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today

https://nystagereview.com/2025/04/03/good-night-and-good-luck-george-clooney-makes-startling-broadway-bow/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:04am

USA Today

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ review: George Clooney preaches to the choir in Broadway debut

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2025/04/03/good-night-good-luck-george-clooney-broadway-review/82736824007/

"There’s something smugly satisfied about the whole exercise, which ultimately talks down to its audience and assumes we can’t connect the dots. “Good Night, and Good Luck” aims to be a hard-hitting story about accountability and checks on power, but all that ever comes through is dead air."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:04am

Theatermania

 

Review: George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck has Good Intentions but Lives in an Echo Chamber

Clooney stars in his and Grant Heslov’s stage adaptation of their Oscar-nominated film.

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-george-clooneys-good-night-and-good-luck-has-good-intentions-but-lives-in-an-echo-chamber_1769393/

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:05am

B from Entertainment Weekly

Good Night, and Good Luck review: George Clooney brings the story from screen to stage…and back to screen

A faithful retelling of the film is perhaps a little too faithful.

https://ew.com/good-night-and-good-luck-review-george-clooney-play-stage-screen-broadway-11706732

"the star is often tucked into a corner of the set looking away from the seats and to a camera, which then transmits the image to a giant screen in the middle of the stage along with 10 monitors along the perimeter. Sure, the choice makes narrative sense considering the medium — putting theatergoers into a 1950s living room setting to receive the transmission much as viewers did back then — but, like, isn’t that what the film is for? Wouldn’t this stage-set Murrow delivering his broadcast directly to the audience be a fresher and more emotionally connecting take?"

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:06am

Deadline

‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Review: George Clooney Makes Broadway Debut Battling Alternative Facts Through The Decades

https://deadline.com/2025/04/good-night-and-good-luck-broadway-review-george-clooney-1236357126/

"Making clear-as-day the similarities between those long ago days of McCarthyite propaganda and today’s Trumpian “alternative facts,” not to mention a news media that’s often either too cowed or too overwhelmed to call a lie a lie, Good Night, and Good Luck is too knowing or too winking by half to seem like anything other than rather uninspired agitprop."

[chanel]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:06am

Village Voice says that if Murrow was a screamer, Bryan Cranston would have gotten the part, but Clooney delivers the more controlled moralism that was actually projected by the legendary broadcast journalist.

https://www.villagevoice.com/review-good-night-and-good-luck-revels-in-courageous-resistance-to-demagogues-70-years-ago/

Updated On: 4/4/25 at 12:06 AM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:08am

A completely unsurprising two stars from the Post

 

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ review: George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in a sleepy newsroom play

https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/entertainment/good-night-and-good-luck-review-george-clooney-makes-broadway-debut-in-a-sleepy-newsroom-play/

 

[Kad]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:08am

Surprised by how all over the place these reviews are.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:08am

Variety

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ review: George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in a sleepy newsroom play

https://variety.com/2025/legit/reviews/good-night-and-good-luck-review-george-clooney-broadway-3-1236354970/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:09am

WSJ

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Review: George Clooney’s Broadway Retread

The actor stars in an adaptation of his own film about the McCarthy-era broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in director David Cromer’s slick production.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-night-and-good-luck-review-george-clooneys-broadway-retread-a88a24f2

"Good night, good luck, and the nearest Starbucks is two blocks south on Broadway.

That is obviously not the salutation the celebrated newsman Edward R. Murrow used to conclude his television programs. Murrow worked in an era when journalists were fueled by cigarettes and Scotch, to begin with. But it might be a useful sendoff for audiences attending “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the stylish but stolid stage adaptation—transcription might be a more apt term—of the 2005 movie, with George Clooney making his Broadway debut. A double shot of espresso might not come amiss after watching this slick but unenthralling show."

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:09am

MemorableUserName said: "NYT Critic's Pick from Green

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/theater/good-night-and-good-luck-review.html?searchResultPosition=1"

Wild. It’s way past time for a new chief theater critic at The Times. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:10am

Daily Beast

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’: George Clooney Issues a Dire Warning About Trump’s America

THE GREAT WHITE WAY

The star’s Broadway production of “Good Night, and Good Luck” is almost too aggressive about its timeliness.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/good-night-and-good-luck-review-george-clooney-issues-dire-warning-about-trumps-america/

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:10am

Kad said: "Surprised by how all over the place these reviews are."

I kind of am as well, but I suppose it’s like the previews thread with opinions kind of all over the place. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:11am

The Wrap

The always contrarian Hofler is positive

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway Review: George Clooney Takes on McCarthy, Then Musk

In a spectacular Broadway debut as actor and writer, the star scores major points for America’s left

https://www.thewrap.com/good-night-and-good-luck-broadway-review-george-clooney/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:12am

Chicago Tribune

Review: In ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway, here’s George Clooney with an urgent bulletin

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/review-in-good-night-and-good-luck-on-broadway-heres-george-clooney-with-an-urgent-bulletin/

Because those in the Othello thread demanded to know if the GN&GL reviews would mention the prices...here you go:

"It’s also worth stating that with ticket prices for this proudly left-leaning show flying up into the stratosphere, there’s a certain elitist disconnect at play, a symptom of our current problems."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:13am

Washington Post

George Clooney delivers a liberal rallying cry in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

The actor makes a shrewd Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in a handsome adaptation of the 2005 film.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2025/04/04/good-night-and-good-luck-george-clooney-broadway/

"in our current timeline, when norms are shattered hour by hour, the docudrama is a sobering yet galvanizing account of how civil society has previously responded to threats from the top. The hero’s tale with a ramrod moral center — starring a Hollywood royal known to speak his mind — will be catnip for certain beleaguered crowds desperate for a shred of hope. What they’ll get is a handsome and sensuously detailed production, from director David Cromer, that elevates the grubby busywork of reporting the news into a finely choreographed art. Call it a rallying cry for integrity from both the media and the masses."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 12:17am

Vulture: Holdren is mixed to positive (or positive to mixed)

This I Believe: George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck

He brings Edward R. Murrow to Broadway with righteousness intact

 

"There is, however, an ebb and flow to witnessing Good Night, and Good Luck on stage, as the potency of its content only intermittently melds with the capacities of its form. The play has a beautiful opening, in which a singer played by Georgia Heers appears in a hazy cone of half-light behind a golden curtain. Statuesque in emerald green, she sings “When I Fall in Love,” backed by a jazz band that nestles into the set’s upper level and functions as in-studio musicians for CBS. Heers’s voice is velvet, and Cromer’s stage picture yearns and glows. As Clooney advances in silhouette in front of the curtain to speak to us for the first time “about what is happening in our mass media,” the perfume of the era’s dissonance suffuses the space: the glamor and what it masks, the romantic melody and the bassline of greed, bigotry, and cruelty thudding away underneath.

It’s quite a beginning, but then that curtain rises, and as lovingly detailed as Pask’s newsroom set is, Cromer has to enliven a still highly cinematic script in a wide-open theatrical space; the result is that Good Night almost immediately starts to diffuse. "

...

"It’s a relatively easy thing for the mega-famous to walk onto a Broadway stage; what they choose to invest themselves in while they’re there is its own question. With Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney and his collaborators give a dignified and resonant answer."

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 2:21am

I love Sara Holdren. I think this is another one she just nailed. I agree with her on basically every point she makes. 

[MasterThespian 2]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 3:40am

Shocked that MAGA rag gave it that many.


MemorableUserName said: "A completely unsurprising two stars from the Post

‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ review: George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in a sleepy newsroom play

https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/entertainment/good-night-and-good-luck-review-george-clooney-makes-broadway-debut-in-a-sleepy-newsroom-play/

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