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

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Why such a structurally scattered movie should hang together at all is a mystery. That it does more than that, that it works brilliantly, is a miracle, or at the very least the product of unquantifiable causes. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Bobby, even if it suffers from a few silly scenes, gets more right than it does wrong. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Deborah Young

    Emilio Estevez's Bobby is a passionate outcry for peace and justice in America that becomes deeply involving by the final climactic scene. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Despite its flaws, its intriguing premise leaves us haunted by thoughts of "What if?" Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    When you hear his (Robert Kennedy's) patient, meditative speeches, from which every note of demagoguery or pandering has been purged, you glimpse the film Mr. Estevez set out to make -- the one you may wish you were watching. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Ray Bennett

    Whether or not Bobby Kennedy was the man his supporters believed him to be, the film makes a persuasive case that something important in America was silenced when he was gunned down. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Bobby coasts along on a dread, and sorrow, it doesn't earn. Read full review

  • 40
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Tests your patience to the breaking point -- maybe beyond. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    It's an ambitious film drenched in sincerity and oozing with nostalgia that, despite the energy provided by its title icon via archival footage, falls flat dramatically in nearly every other way. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Estevez means well. But having your heart in the right place is no excuse for insipid ineptitude. Read full review

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