Don't miss James Bowman's review of George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, his standard Hollywood issue look at Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy:

One line of Murrow’s attack on McCarthy stands out for a Truth that is more, one hopes, than mere advertising hype. It is that “mature Americans can engage in the clash of ideas without being contaminated.”

That may have been true in the 1950s. But a movie like this one, which feels it necessary to protect us from any genuine controversy, suggests that it is so no longer.