This sadly derivative film has one too many screenings of All the President’s Men written all over it.

Kate Taylor

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Journalists deserve to be heralded — just not in this holier-than-thou cinematic cri de coeur. So, on behalf of journalists everywhere, I have to tell Mr. Reiner thanks, but no thanks.

Kerry Lengel

Arizona Republic

If this swift, entertaining film, set during the post-9/11 run-up to the Iraq war, brashly leans left, it has history on its side as well as, it seems, the interests of our soldiers.

Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times