Critic Reviews

• Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News

  Makes good use of historical footage to show how a B-list Hollywood actor made the unlikely ascension to commander-in-chief.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  The film is bereft not only of style, but reasoned opinions and even, occasionally, verifiable facts.

• Desson Thomson, Washington Post

  This is the sort of film that will make its target audience, presumably religious, right-wing Christians, heartened and possibly misty-eyed. But it's likely to provoke hooting and hollering in less reverent circles.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  In the Face of War repeats the same points over and over in a manner that's ironically very much like Soviet propaganda.

• Ned Martel, New York Times

  Ronald Reagan's praises are sung in an operatic documentary that rises to new heights, slipping the surly bonds of hagiography.

• David Blaylock, Village Voice

  Overreaching in many of its laudatory appraisals, the film is mostly GOP-boosting rhetoric in the guise of a dull History Channel special.

• Luke Y. Thompson, Los Angeles CityBeat

  The Gipper was always more entertaining and more persuasive than any of the other talking heads on display here

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Were the film's tone not so hysterical it might be provocative; as it is, insights and insults are inextricably intertwined.

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