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

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Jonathan Curiel

    The film is a damning look at a key Bush operative. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Potent if hardly evenhanded documentary. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    In a refreshing change of pace, this week's anti-Bush documentary, Bush's Brain, is not really about George W. Bush at all. It's about his senior political adviser, Karl Rove. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    The movie feels like a rush job and at times its tactics are as suspect as those attributed to its subject. But when it comes to political strategy trumping policy in the Bush White House, it makes its case. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    The film leaves any opponent of the current administration with a discouraging ambivalence: On one hand, one wants to vehemently decry such tactics in American politics. On the other, one wants to know where the hell is the Democrats' Karl Rove? Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Only partially convincing. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    By turns darkly comical, seriously scary and purposefully incendiary, Bush's Brain may seem, depending on your politics, either a shamelessly one-sided assault on a popular U.S. president or a justifiably harsh critique of a politician who personifies the Peter Principle. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Whether or not Bush's Brain makes its case against Mr. Rove, the movie leaves you with the sickening feeling that it's no longer possible in American politics to stay out of the gutter unless, of course, you want to lose. Dirty politics work. Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    They succeed in presenting a compelling series of dots, to use the current parlance, but they don't succeed in connecting them. Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Introduces us to many who have known, worked and tangled with the man some call Bush's "co-president" during his multi-decade involvement in Republican politics. Read full review

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