'Wag the Dog' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

A.O. Scott reviews Barry Levinson's 1997 film about a Washington fixer and a Hollywood producer who band together to create a politically expedient but entirely fictional war.
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[@karlchandran4631]

Art work! A brilliant movie!

[@ThunderAppeal]

Just 2 short years later after wag the dog was released the klinton administration was embroiled in what was portrayed in this movie almost verbatim.

[@amygwenn5189]

An orchestrated war in the Balkan region...hmmmmmmmmmmm

[@ThunderAppeal]

@@amygwenn5189 Thats a bingo. I believe David Mamet wrote the script.

[@ThunderAppeal]

@@amygwenn5189 Oddly enough klinton began the 'NATO led' campaign just a few moments after he was impeached.

[@darkchocolate3390]

Lmfao. Cope you Serbian simp.

[@suzclayton783]

Can you imagine that the worst thing a president could do is sleep with an assistant? We forget in 97 I think the worst thing going on was the OJ trial

[@rainafortini5797]

And today the same people who are reminded that this is not a far-fetched reality just stood back and watched it happen and today the same people who should know better pander to BLM because a movie like this goes over their freaking heads

[@hoboqueen4453]

One of my favorite movies.

[@jamesculshaw5259]

These days Covid pandemic is Albania

[@mikaelarkanghel5094]

P( l )andemic

[@MindbytesXL]

We've had a lot of “Albanian” like events: West Nile virus, swine flu, kony 2012, 911, Zika virus, Ebola, both okc bombings, seal team 6….

[@tommytimp]

I still don't understand why Motss says there's no Academy Award for producing.

[@dondaddah9141]

Cart before the horse? EVERGREEN?! NYT is a good source for what to look at and take the opposite conclusions

[@mikaelarkanghel5094]

Truth

[@kaminarimon639]

Here we go again #ukrain #russian

[@bluetrane65]

Exactly why I'm here

[@suetempleton9135]

Yip, here for that reason too

[@nezhinkayash]

😢

[@manfromearth8656]

Now it is worse

[@stevencorrea6946]

Coronavirus

[@spencerm5913]

@@stevencorrea6946 look into The DISC and The GIN theory by Eric Weinstein.

[@manfromearth8656]

@@stevencorrea6946 yup

[@joequillun7790]

@@stevencorrea6946 Shhh! (Walls have ears. People aren't suppose to know about this.) :!

[@MaXaNoMaLoUs]

Ahmed EL-Naggar now it’s WAY WORSE. Covid is a fraud

[@TheRigomoni]

long before wag the dog there was a movie called citizen kane that predicted this

[@StephanieSoressi]

We have long known which came first, the chicken or the egg. All mutations happen in the embryo.

[@rogerlynch5279]

Kind of a satire in the BILLY WILDER tradition as ONE TWO THREE or AVANTI AVANTI

[@snaxx82]

...relevant as ever, ain't that right NYsoldoutoursoulstocorporaTocracy???

[@erosionhead420]

It’s March 08 / 2022

[@philoshaughnessy906]

Mark Knopfler. The K is silent. Just saying.

[@jefferysmom696]

*and it was a Dog!!!!..it Bombed!!!...is was so pretentious non of these big name stars ever even mention it*

[@wakinglions747]

What sort of prophecy was this film? Absolutely on the mark of today..... Between Trump's behavior at the debate and being wrong about the CDC finding a cure by October, it's finally coming to a head..... Does he truly have Coronavirus, or is it a classic spin from the movie WAG THE DOG?

[@angiethrasher2093]

The very reason I've came to these video clips!! Trump has all the connections he needs to do this! The apprentice is a prime example! They are in it for the money and we all know this!

[@ThunderAppeal]

You forgot klinton bombed yugoslavia barely 2 years after this film was released.

[@jamesculshaw5259]

Pity this critic knows nothing about film.

[@deadshaper1]

Much better song than the Trump drivel.

[@arielg7000]

so not funny