Good Night, And Good Luck

It's not a bad movie, just a bad history lesson | Andrew Coffin

George Clooney's Good Night, And Good Luck. is not a bad movie, but it is most certainly bad history. Mr. Clooney's exercise in hero worship—in reverent awe of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow—was clearly devised not as a history lesson but as a modern parable to indict a variety of favored targets of the left.

Mr. Clooney is a fine propagandist, though. His film is stylish (shot in evocative black and white), efficient (finishing in a brisk 93 minutes), entertaining even (a competent director, Mr. Clooney employs many fine actors). And, watching it without much in the way of historical reference points, as many will, Good Night, And Good Luck. is quite convincing. Crusading network journalist, good. Mean-spirited, revoltingly dumb senator, bad. End of story.

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