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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A tight, taut thriller with a twist. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Sleek and satisfying....Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Eastwood is in good, sly form, once again delighting in a character's splendid solitude and singular skill at what he does. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Eastwood directs a sensible-looking genre film with smooth expertise, but its plot is quietly berserk. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Eastwood gutsily stages the extended opening slowly and methodically... [But u]nintentional yuks litter an otherwise somber political thriller adapted from David Baldacci's novel. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Glum and depersonalized, as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. [14 Feb 1997, p. 39] Read full review

  • 20
    Salon.com | Charles Taylor

    The embodiment of every conservative paranoid's slathering fantasies about Paula Jones, Vince Foster and Whitewater. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Devolves into such utter ludicrousness, the best response (other than avoiding the thing in the first place) is to laugh. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Promises to speed up the pacemakers of grumpy old Republicans with its ruthless indictment of the unzipped presidency. Read full review

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