Quiz Show

Fiennes, following his Schindler's List turn, is a rare gorgeous lead who can compete with a great character actor like Turturro, generating an intoxicating contrast between their characters and acting styles.

Robert Redford has directed Quiz Show as entertainment, history, and challenge. It is fun as a thriller; we find ourselves sort of hoping Van Doren doesn't get caught.

Ralph Fiennes' Charles Van Doren is a fascinating individual, equally seduced and repelled by greed. Desperate to escape his father's shadow, he wallows in public adulation until it begins to stink from his own hypocrisy.

...QUIZ SHOW deserves a great deal of praise. It's a blessedly old-fashioned, well-made and well-acted narrative,,,