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State of Play (2009)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...an enjoyably trashy thriller..." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...a smart, ingenious thriller set in the halls of Congress and the city room of a newspaper not unlike the Washington Post." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "Good old-school thriller, new reality." more... B   E! Online Matt Stevens "...while often rich, it doesn't reach its full potential." more... B   Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "...excitingly twisty and topical..." more... A- Filmcritic.com Bill Gibron "...a serviceable entertainment that never makes a strong cinematic statement." more... B- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Political mystery-thriller lacks credibility throughout." more... C+ New York Post Kyle Smith "State of Play is bordered by the states of absurdity and cliché." more... D+ New York Times A.O. Scott "...both shallower and muddier than its clear-eyed source." more... C- Reelviews James Berardinelli "...achieves an old-fashioned feel ..." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "Rumpled, rugged, focused - fundamentally decent - knowing and yet innocent in a way good reporters sometimes are - Crowe is the perfect study of the middle-aged, midcareer print journalist..." more... B   USA Today Claudia Puig "...a well-crafted political thriller..." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)