Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 31 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Director Jay Roach turns Robert Schenkkan's acclaimed Broadway play into an engrossing, powerful if slightly overcrowded movie that works as a biopic of LBJ and as a time capsule of a crucial period in the civil rights movement.
– Richard Roeper,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 May 2016
fresh:
The movie may have a larger scope, but it retains the power of the original play.
– John Bonazzo,
New York Observer,
22 May 2016
rotten:
It's been a while since I saw a TV movie that had everything going for it, yet failed to be memorable. All the Way should have been a classic: electrifying, surprising, moving, artful. It's not.
– Matt Zoller Seitz,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
23 May 2016
fresh:
Much of the film's draw, and pleasures, stem from watching Bryan Cranston work the character (not to mention the prosthetic nose and ears).
– Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2016
fresh:
Johnson had the same insecurities we all do; but whatever happened, he made sure it happened on his terms. All The Way never lets you forget that legacies, like most things, are mediated by power.