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The Looming Tower (TV Miniseries)

The Looming Tower

2018

Alex Gibney (Creator), Dan Futterman (Creator) ...

Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Wrenn Schmidt ...

7.2

2,031

TV Series. Drama TV Miniseries (2018). 10 Episodes. “Looming Tower” is a 10-episode series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning expose by Lawrence Wright (also executive producer) on the in-fighting between the FBI and CIA in the years leading up to 9/11. Jeff Daniels stars as John O’Neil the head of the FBI’s New York counterterrorism unit in the Hulu drama “The Looming Tower.” Daniels plays a bull-headed FBI veteran who is rightly convinced that the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Sturdy, serious and star-studded (...) 'The Looming Tower' is essentially like a well-shot, brilliantly cast, fast-moving season of 'Homeland'"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"There is plenty to admire in 'Tower' (...) As difficult as 'Tower's subject matter may be for some, it’s also a true pleasure to watch Rahim work."	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[It] tells an incredible 9/11 story with passion and power (...) It may be an unmissable history lesson, but it’s also just one helluva story, told very, very well."	POS
United States	Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone	"Excellent (...) [It] has a stellar supporting cast (...) In so many ways, 'The Looming Tower' is most affecting as a portrait of America in the Nineties."	POS
United Kingdom	Jake Nevins The Guardian	"Bureaucratic breakdowns and government infighting are dramatized in compelling fashion (...) The best performances here are those of Daniels and Sarsgaard (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Merrill Barr Forbes	"The definitive dramatization of the pre-9/11 war on terror (...) The series is superbly acted by Jeff Daniels, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg and a host of others"	POS
United States	Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe	"It’s a testament to 'The Looming Tower' that the story is as gripping as it is, given that we know where it’s all going."	POS
United States	Kristi Turnquist Portland Oregonian	"'The Looming Tower' works both as a recent period piece (...) and a cautionary tale about how rivalries and feuds within the U.S. intelligence community can lead to potentially deadly results"	POS

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