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Saturday, April 5, 2025

UPDATED “Reagan” Movie Starring Dennis Quaid Panned, 31% Score on RT: “Communicates Very Little,” “Hamfisted,” “Disingenuous”

Reviews are coming for “Reagan” starring Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan and they are not great. Rotten Tomatoes has it at just 31%. Ouch!

Ty Burr writes in the Washington Post: “The faithful for whom “Reagan” was made aren’t likely to see that it’s a hagiography as rosy and shallow as anything in a Kremlin May Day parade. As pop-culture propaganda — popaganda, if you will — the movie’s strictly for true believers. As history, it’s worthless.”

Quaid is quite good in the new horror film, “The Substance.” But as Reagan he sound horrible.

Slant Magazine says: “The film’s treatment of its subject is belligerently hamfisted, disingenuous, and incurious”

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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