The Guardian reviews Trumbo

Via The Guardian, a very positive Trumbo review – when Hollywood saw red. The conclusion:

Alongside flagging up Otto Preminger’s unsung role in returning Trumbo’s name to the screen, what gives Roach’s movie bite is the depiction of the writer’s family and the toll that his actions and allegiances take upon them. 

Diane Lane is excellent as Trumbo’s loving but long-suffering spouse, Cleo, defending her children against their father’s drug- and alcohol-fuelled irritability, and Elle Fanning works wonders with the role of Niki (played in her younger years by Madison Wolfe), the elder daughter who seems to embody so many of her father’s fiery, idealistic traits. 

In the end, it is through the eyes of these characters that we see Trumbo most clearly, in all his stubborn, satirical glory. Cranston’s Trumbo may be the focus of attention, but Lane and Fanning’s Cleo and Niki (along with the rest of his family) are the power behind his throne – in fiction as in life.

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