The Candidate (1972)
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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What critics compared The Candidate to
These movies stand as on par with Redford’s The Candidate, Three Days Of The Condor and All The President’s Men in their absolute belief that something is rotten in the state of the union.
A more sharply satiric and expansive director, such as Robert Altman or Michael Ritchie (“The Candidate”), could have turned this material into a classic love-hate letter to “American” values.
For someone who will never master the intricacies of the “Marvel universe” of cross-pollinated properties and storylines, an almost immediate satisfaction in the fine craft of directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (“Community,” “You, Me And Dupree”) came from how closely allied this superhero adventure is to 1970s American movies, down to the superb casting of Robert Redford, the face of 1970s paranoia classics like “Three Days Of The Condor,” “The Candidate” and “All The President’s Men,” as the enforcer of 2010s universal spying on the world’s citizenry.