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Bombshell  Film Review

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie play the women who brought down Fox News mogul Roger Ailes in the first drama of riveting insight to anatomize sexual harassment for the post-#MeToo world.

With:

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Mark Duplass, Malcolm McDowell, Allison Janney, Connie Britton, Alanna Ubach, Spencer Garrett, Brooke Smith, Ben Lawson, Josh Lawson, Marc Evan Jackson.

Official Site: https://bombshell.movie

I suspect I won’t be alone in saying that I went into “Bombshell” with a touch of skepticism. The movie is a lively and scabrous docudrama — not a snarkfest (though some of it is bitingly funny) but a meticulous, close-to-the-bone chronicle of how Megyn Kelly (played by Charlize Theron), one of the star anchors of Fox News, and Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), the host of “Fox & Friends,” brought down the lecherous right-wing mogul-titan Roger Ailes by revealing the veritable system of sexual harassment that he used to run his network.

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In the two years since the reckoning brought on by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, we’ve been waiting for a drama that indelibly dramatizes the fear and loathing and stark human cost of sexual harassment. The wait is over: “Bombshell,” directed by Jay Roach (“Game Change”) from a script by Charles Randolph (“The Big Short”), is that movie. Yet watching it, I knew that I’d have to view, as heroines, two of the women who became celebrities at Fox News, a network built on the toxic DNA of corruption and lies. Would the film acknowledge their complicity in that? Or would it be a Hollywood whitewash? Worth seeing it.

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