It's a superb film -- funny, insightful and very wise about the realities of political life.

Perhaps Nichols and May's greatest accomplishment is capturing perfectly on film the mysterious, complex, compromised relationship the public has with today's political leaders.

Such a smart and savvy piece of work it encourages us to feel we're eavesdropping on history.

Guilty, deftly orchestrated fun.

It's as wise and funny and revealing as anything ever created by Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

I expected to laugh; I didn't expect to be moved.

Sophisticated and unsentimental political film.

Whatever else it may or may not be, Primary Colors is first and last a mainstream Hollywood entertainment. And that means that viewers looking for engagement with political issues are bound to be disappointed.

Nichols and his once and current partner, screenwriter Elaine May, can make a funny, knowing, ultimately judicious film from the deliciously satyric satire.

Its palette isn't primary at all: It's full of secondary shadings.

One the truest-feeling political portraits in years, as well as a fine piece of drama.

A hilariously entertaining movie.

One of those thrilling confluences in pop culture that rewards audiences for thinking the worst about politicians and the best about movie stars.

Striking an excellent balance between wry cultural critique and crisp entertainment value, the picture is as smart and funny as any comedy-drama in recent memory.