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Bush's Brain Review

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

  • 3.0
    48

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
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    critic review scores.

  • 38

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune

    Even if the movie's only goal is to preach to the choir, its fondness for hyperbole and lack of discernment is more insult than rallying cry.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Only partially convincing.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    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?

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