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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt's a sideways view of a national trauma. The large cast includes standout performances from such unlikelies as Demi Moore, playing an alcoholic crooner, and Estevez himself, as her long-suffering husband. Everyone in this film is powerful.
- 75PremiereScott WarrenPremiereScott WarrenAlll in all, however, Estevez has pulled together the best political drama, fiction or otherwise, in recent memory.
- 70VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungEmilio Estevez's Bobby is a passionate outcry for peace and justice in America that becomes deeply involving by the final climactic scene.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettWhether 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.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottWhen 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.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBobby coasts along on a dread, and sorrow, it doesn't earn.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe 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.
- 50The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe 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.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceBobby 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.
- 40L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe only character who emerges as more than an ideological mouthpiece, and nearly saves the movie, is the Ambassador's resident hairstylist, who masks her faded beauty with a thick coat of eye shadow and an overteased hairdo. I kept wondering who this deeply sad, earthy actress was, making so much out of so little, until I realized it was Sharon Stone in the most naked performance she's ever given without taking her clothes off.