Review of Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) by Jarvis — 13 Nov 2019

Simply put This film is just devoid of all life. The Story is very disjointed, with most subplots having no baring on the overall narrative; Characters feel bland and have no real depth or personality; and there is zero character development across the entire cast.

nothing memorable really happens in this movie; nothing that you couldn't have learned more efficiently from a single history lecture anyway. This movie settles for telling you what's supposed to be important rather than showing it, major plot points are dropped on you in the third act with no foreshadowing, and character relationships aren't fleshed out beyond them claiming to be friends.

The film's overall presentation is about as bland as a movie can be; the entire film is set indoors, and only a handful of different locations are used. The claustrophobic setting eliminates the possibility of any creative or interesting camera work, meaning that the majority of the film is just shot reverse shot dialogue.

The black and white color scheme may seem endearing, but combined with the already drab setting it just makes the film feel even more dead. All and all this film was clearly only given so much praise because it's a "smart movie".

It's slow paced, and completely built around dialogue, therefore you must be really intelligent if you like it; but in truth almost any other drama is better than this.