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Scoop

Scoop

2024

Philip Martin

Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper, Rufus Sewell ...

5.6

577

Drama How the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Here is a laboriously acted and distinctly self-admiring, self-mythologising drama about the media, the royals and the media royals (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"An engrossing look behind Prince Andrew’s fall from grace (...) It’s no great slight to 'Scoop' to say that it’s no more compelling than the real-life news broadcast on which it pivots. It’s also no less compelling than said broadcast, which was, after all, a doozy"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The film is too close to -- and too impressed by -- the simple fact of what just happened to see under the surface, or even bother to look that hard"
		John Nugent Empire	"[It] is not quite the prince that was promised. But there are some gripping moments, and some extraordinary performances — especially from Sewell and Piper (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"n interview recreated for big chunks of the running time, it doesn’t significantly deepen or enrich our understanding of the personalities involved — let alone journalism, privilege, sexual exploitation or the price of fish"
		Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Between the lines, 'Scoop' conveys, not only what Andrew most likely did, but what led him to assume that he’d get away with it. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Patrick Cremona Radio Times	"As important as McAlister's work was, though, the process of engineering the interview is not especially cinematic, and the film fails to shed much new light on press relations with the royal family (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Nicholas Barber BBC	"[It] misses the point (...) The 2019 royal interrogation has become a scripted drama with stars including Gillian Anderson – but there's too much emphasis on the personal story of the news producer behind it, and not enough on the bigger issues (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"What 'Scoop' offers is the modest pleasure of rooting for a reporting team to get a story. That, and mimicry: exceptional on Anderson’s part, less on that of Sewell"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Rufus Sewell and Billie Piper shine in Prince Andrew drama (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Melanie McDonagh London Evening Standard	"Gillian Anderson and Billie Piper offer note-perfect performances (...) This dramatisation of the infamous Prince Andrew Newsnight interview is beautifully tense (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Nina Metz Chicago Tribune	"There’s nowhere near enough story to justify a movie-length depiction (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"Significantly, it manages to keep us on the edge our seats even if we do indeed know how it all ends. No small task"
		Emily Zemler The New York Observer	"This Netflix movie successfully turns Prince Andrew's disastrous 2019 BBC interview into a thriller—even though we already know the outcome"
		Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"Billie Piper is stellar (...) Beyond its subject matter one of the reasons 'Scoop' is genuinely compelling is Philip Martin’s direction"
		Lori Meek Ready Steady Cut	"The film is worth watching on its own merits. That’s partly thanks to a clever script, good pacing, and fantastic performances (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Grant Hermanns Screen Rant	"[It] tries its hardest to be the next 'Spotlight', and though its subject is just as timely and the performances all strong, it comes up short (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alex Maidy JoBlo	"It isn’t boring enough to be bad but not special enough to be good"
		Craig Mathieson The Age	"Smartly observed by director Philip Martin, 'Scoop' is a tick-tock narrative where the outcome is known (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Hugo Rifkind The Times	"There was a lot to enjoy in this broad cosplay of British media, for all its flaws (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"Rufus Sewell is a revelation as Prince Andrew in this brilliant Newsnight drama (...) With Gillian Anderson also excellent as Emily Maitlis (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"An entertaining movie (...) The interest comes in the details (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"A royal bore (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Mireia Mullor Digital Spy	"It won't tell you anything new that you probably didn't know, but it's a heartfelt love letter to those journalists still fighting in the trenches of an unfairly precarious profession (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"The movie succeeds in showing viewers that the slow and steady professionalism of real journalists attempting the Quixotic quest of practicing real journalism can still bring down a giant"
		Taylor Gates Collider	"It's always nice to pay tribute to the often unsung heroes who break stories that matter"

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