Reagan

The film seems incapable of imagining what its protagonist was like in private moments or ascribing any interior complexity to him.

Reagan can’t even trace the broad outlines of your stock biopic, because it refuses to allow in its protagonist any kind of complicating flaw, and the geopolitical stalemate that acts as the primary conflict is too big and abstract for the frame.

Like Reagan the actor and Reagan the president, Reagan the new movie has a strained relationship with reality.

Without any lifelike characters, it’s hard to find oneself caring, and thus, Reagan’s dedication to such narrow themes proves limiting.

It comes so close to parody that it brings to mind the “Saturday Night Live” “Mastermind” skit.

It’s a thin line between satire and self-parody, and more sophisticated directors than McNamara have tripped all over it. Reagan looks a bit like a berserk Saturday Night Live sketch, or maybe a biopic parody à la Walk Hard...

Colorful, stiff biopic starring an over-the-top Dennis Quaid. [Full review in Spanish]

Ultimately, Reagan is an insubstantive Greatest Hits compendium LP existing to spin, spin, spin positive, no matter what.

Jumping timelines and hitting rom a Russian POV make this eccentric biopic hard to follow. However, it does highlight beautifully crafted performances from Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller

This by-the-numbers biopic is a soggy, second-rate attempt at myth-making that cares more about legacy than about who the man behind the legend really was.