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Metascore®54 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

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

  • 50
    The New Yorker | David Denby

    Estevez has made a vague gesture at a large, metaphoric structure without having the dramatic means to achieve it. His choreography of the panic and misery in the hotel after the shooting is impressive, and some of the actors do fine in their brief roles. But his script never rises above earnest banality, and we are constantly being taught little lessons in tolerance and humanity: Read full review

  • 50
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The resulting finished project is a series of skits performed by famous people doing favors for a friend, and it works about as well as one might expect from such an endeavor. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

    The film has virtually nothing to say about the man, or about much of anything, really. It's a sketchbook trying to pass as a tapestry. 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

  • 40
    Village Voice | Jim Ridley

    Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is--an "Airport" movie with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as the central calamity and an all-star cast deployed like multiple George Kennedys. Read full review

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