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.
Muna Mire, The New Republic
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All the Way
Overview
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.'
Director and cast
- Jay Roach Director
- Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson
- Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson
- Frank Langella as Sen. Richard Russell
- Bradley Whitford as Hubert Humphrey
- Stephen Root as J. Edgar Hoover
- Todd Weeks as Walter Jenkins
- Ray Wise as Senator Everett Dirksen
- Ken Jenkins as Howard W. Smith
- Dohn Norwood as Ralph Abernathy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
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
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
Fresh
The movie may have a larger scope, but it retains the power of the original play.
John Bonazzo, New York Observer
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
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