Mostly, Nothing But The Truth operates a lot like Billy Ray's "Shattered Glass" and "Breach," offering up the sort of no-nonsense, meat-and-potatoes docudrama that's in short supply these days.
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VarietyTodd McCarthy
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Competently constructed and nicely acted by Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga.
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Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
In the spirit of its title, Nothing but the Truth pivots on a plot twist that's both good and fair. And kudos to the ever-earnest Beckinsale for surviving a prison brawl as splatterific as anything Mickey Rourke had to endure in "The Wrestler."
Nothing but the Truth has nothing much at all to do with the historical record, which wouldn't be bad if it offered something persuasive and worthwhile in return, like a reckoning of journalism and its abuses.
Lurie spins off into invention like a "Law & Order" writer on deadline, scrambling the issues so thoroughly it's no longer clear what, if anything, the movie is meant to address.
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New York PostKyle Smith
New York PostKyle Smith
Nothing But the Truth is like listening to the fourth-best debater in middle school present a term paper called "Politics, Power and the Media."