'In re-creating Murrow, actor David Strathairn made a careful study of his subject, and has reproduced Murrow's style down to the smallest gesture.

'Yet Strathairn's work goes beyond imitation and impersonation; he creates an intensely passionate individual who is driven by an inflexible code of ethics.

'Like other actors who successfully create a cinematic doppelganger of a real person, Strathairn gets under the character's skin.'