Network

“We have a supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s...Paddy Chayefsky's script isn't a bad one, but he finally loses control of it. There's just too much he wanted to say...And yet, still, what a rich and interesting movie this is. Lumet's direction is so taut, that maybe we don't realize that it leaves some unfinished business.”