If you like movies like The Post, then this is the one for you. I personally cannot stand movies like this. Having a political agenda in a movie is fine if the movie is still good; I think Bowling for Columbine and Wall Street are both excellent films. A movie has to be more than just a political agenda though, and that is one of the many problems with this movie. The movie focuses so much on its agenda that it doesn't really have time for the plot, which barely exists. It isn't a biography film and it doesn't focus on her battles against anti-communism or Desi Arnaz's philandering; it tries to do all of that by devoting a few scenes to each of those things, and devoting 15 minutes to the latter two when they are the thrust of the film is just bad writing.

The film does not have a cohesive theme. Is it about McCarthyism? Is it about how women, Hispanics, or old people are discriminated against in Hollywood? Is it about their personal lives? Is it about how men talked down to Lucy, when she was clearly a comic genius? It is hard to say, as the movie does not focus on any one thing long enough for one to care. It really is all over the place thematically, and the film really suffers for it.

The interview scenes where the aged writers look back on the show are completely unnecessary and take one out of the movie. These kinds of scenes can work fine if they add to the movie, like in I, Tonya, but I am at a loss as to why these scenes were included in this movie at all, rather than to act as narrators talking about what a hero Lucy was even more than what is already in the rest of the film.

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are miscast in the film, IMO. JK Simmons is spot-on though.

If you liked Don't Look Up, this movie may be for you. It is pretentious and smug about its message, though in this case it can barely even try to coherently convey the message to the audience in a meaningful manner. There is a point in the end of the movie where the woman writer on the show tells Lucy that she is her hero. It had me asking "why is she her hero? What in this movie would make her anybody's hero?"

Screw this movie.