Hilarious and deadly, this may be Altman's most completely realized film since his glory days in the '70s.

[It's] supposed to be scathing, but the pleasure it affords is like what you get from watching the Oscars: celebrity spotting and in-jokes.

Mercilessly satiric yet good-natured, this enormously entertaining slam dunk quite possibly is the most resonant Hollywood saga since the days of Sunset Blvd. and The Bad and the Beautiful.

[Robert Altman] brings the satirical sensibility of a veteran who’s been through the Hollywood ringer and come out alive, yet for all the cynicism and politics of the portrait, he creates likable, compelling characters and riveting scenes ...