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By Ken A (88) on 13 Apr 2018

Basic but the visuals and true story elements keep you vested…

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By Brendon B (15) on 13 Apr 2018

It's Pacino at his best…

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By Kahron Spearman (20) for The Daily Dot (155) on 10 Apr 2018

This is no lionizing biopic…

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By Tony Macklin (521) for tonymacklin.net (414) on 09 Apr 2018

It's the Nittany Lions against the Christians…

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By Rajiv B (13) on 09 Apr 2018

Penn St fans need to watch this, the way acted back then and the way they still deny facts to this day is pathetic…

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By Norbert K (11) on 09 Apr 2018

Acting was good, but how do you call a movie Paterno & only cover 14 days of his life…

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By Lisa Kathleen R (1) on 09 Apr 2018

Most of it repeats what was in the news, except with some imagination as to what went on in the Paterno household…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 08 Apr 2018

As a motion picture, Paterno is at odds with itself - playing both as a chamber piece character study and a Spotlight-style investigative journalism…

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By Alison De Souza (8) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Apr 2018

Where this movie may really lose you, though, is when it asks you to care about what and when Paterno knew of the abuse, or even to feel sorry…

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By Jeff N (329) on 07 Apr 2018

HBO's Paterno movie, including a review by CNN, corroborate that it uses purely fictional situations to strengthen the (now discredited) narrative…

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By Joshua L (2,111) on 07 Apr 2018

Al Pacino delivers one of his best performance of all time in Paterno…

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By Jaison H (6) on 07 Apr 2018

It's Pacino at his best…

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By Daniel K (7) on 06 Apr 2018

Child abuse, ethics and morality and idolatry are the major themes that run through Barry Levinson's movie Paterno…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 05 Apr 2018

Yes, it's interesting to watch Paterno's end as his family tries to rally around him, but there are too-few glimpses of Penn St…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Apr 2018

Now, with the title role in HBO's unsettling and riveting and scathing Paterno, Pacino reminds us of why he's a singular talent…

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By Christopher Lawrence (234) for Las Vegas Review-Journal (433) on 05 Apr 2018

Through Aaron and Ganim's Spotlight-style reporting, Paterno finally puts a human face on the Sandusky atrocities…

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By Hank Stuever (48) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 Apr 2018

Parallel to its main narrative, Paterno briefly becomes another and perhaps more interesting kind of movie - one of those stirring Spotlight-style…

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By Jake Nevins (13) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Apr 2018

At times, the film does a fine job handling extremely upsetting material, but for the most part it's plagued by a problem of perspective, constantly…

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By Dorothy Rabinowitz (15) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Apr 2018

Al Pacino's Paterno is so convincing, and eerily lifelike it becomes necessary from time to time, to remember that this isn't the actual coach…

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By Matt Brennan (26) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Apr 2018

Paterno's most grimly compelling through line [is in] the ways in which the Paternos, Penn State officials, the campus, the community, the…

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