Reviews of Broadcast News 1987

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  • Griffin Newman

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Griffin Newman 06 Dec 2017 5

    A movie about the burden of being smart enough to know that you'll never be truly happy.

  • Sean Gilman

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Sean Gilman 04 Jul 2017 10

    Get out while you can still cry.

    Holly Hunter cries all through the film, though usually only at certain scheduled times and places. Until the end, when she chooses principle over desire.

    Albert Brooks never cries, though his attack of flop sweat is essentially his whole body crying, telling him to escape.

    William Hurt, with complete mastery over his body (and empty head), can manufacture tears on command.

  • demi adejuyigbe

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by demi adejuyigbe 09 Mar 2022 7

    “It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.”
    “No, it’s awful.”

    God, this movie is perfect. So unique! Never been repeated! Just so so so one-of-a-kind from the first moment. Ultimately a movie about a love triangle between a director, a writer, and an actor. Such a strong resolution too, you don’t know what you want for them until we get there and then you realize it wouldn’t…

  • demi adejuyigbe

    ★★★★½ Watched by demi adejuyigbe 21 Jan 2021 12

    Oh my god I loved it!!! I knew it was a favorite of so many people's for so long and bought the Criterion on a whim ages ago figuring I'd like it, but I was just so immediately enamored with it. Three perfect lead performances, each so well-built and truly unique, it's just a wonderfully original romcom that still manages to feel like a romcom in the best ways. Holly Hunter is fucking outstanding, and so so funny– she has…

  • Lucy

    ★★★★ Watched by Lucy 23 Feb 2022 5

    holly hunter in this movie is why the awooga cartoon sound effect was invented

  • manilazic

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by manilazic 27 Mar 2018 3

    This film is getting heavier and more real as I get older, and since I’m still only 25, I expect it to properly kill me eventually. 

    Jane and Aaron are made for each other, except she doesn’t love him - they have similar brains but the attraction isn’t there for her, which might be one reason why she has crying fits. Her relationship with Aaron is yet another frustrating injustice in her life, after the helpless lowering of standards in…

  • Neeka B

    ★★★★★ Watched by Neeka B 21 Nov 2020 6

    omg Aaron Sorkin wishes he wrote this

  • theo !!

    ★★★★ Watched by theo !! 04 Jan 2025

    she was like a shot of espresso

  • Griffin Newman

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Griffin Newman 13 Nov 2022 3

    Somehow only hits harder every single time I revisit.

  • fran hoepfner

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by fran hoepfner 12 Oct 2020 2

    "I grant you everything! But give me this:" 😭😭😭😭 </3333

  • SilentDawn

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by SilentDawn 13 Aug 2019 1

    92

    If anything, the ending of Broadcast News is too tidy, suggesting that the sardonic flavor of the love triangle would fade, nice and neatly, rather than burrow into a lost cause for all three characters. Not that it matters much, because the majority of this film is hot dynamite, with one of the greatest screenplays ever written - each line carrying the romantic connections from point to point, bursting with energy, always pushing forward with purpose - and three all-timer performances. Watching Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, and William Hurt in their prime is to observe master magicians at the peak of their craft.

  • Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🩵

    ★★★★½ Rewatched by Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🩵 25 Jun 2022 2

    Where do I even begin with the greatness of this film? It’s sterling screenplay? The tremendous acting from the entire cast? Joan Cusack’s mad dash sequence through the newsroom? What I was drawn to this time unsurprisingly is how it portrays the emotional and professional politics of the newsroom and acts as an intriguing window into the cultural conception of journalism in America.

    But also, this film has a tender sexiness to it — William Hurt holding Holly Hunter’s hand…

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