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“It is itself very like TV, the monster it mocks”: Network reviewed in 1977
When it was first released, our reviewer David Thomson found Sidney Lumet’s media satire to be too reliant on the methods and devices of commercial TV, writing “the film is as vicious and feeble as a wasp trapped in the jam it craves”.
By David Thomson
“It is itself very like TV, the monster it mocks”: Network reviewed in 1977