Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Blistering performances.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Lenny Bruce's troubled life came to celluloid with the Late/Great Bob Fosse's 'Lenny', one of the most well-reviewed films of its time. And like any-other Bob Fosse film, 'Lenny' is imperfect & uninhibited, with two leading-performances that will sweep you off your feat.'Lenny' Synopsis: The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.Lenny Bruce's sense of humor was no-holds-barred & hence he was a controversial figure of his time. 'Lenny' captures his undeniable talent for humor that raised laughs & questions. This biopic also captures his rather sad personal life & his relationship with his stripper wife & her troubled journey with drugs. And some of this is actually affecting & also inspired stuff.BUT, The Screenplay by Julian Barry isn't entirely engaging. The Writing is brave in parts and unappealing in parts. As acidic as Lenny's stand-up shows turn out, the Writing can never match up to its outspoken, thought-provoking hero.Fosse's Direction, like always, is driven by human-emotions. And the filmmaker captures Lenny's life with complete honesty. Cinematography & Editing are finely done.Performance-Wise: Dustin Hoffman & Valerie Perrine are brilliant. Hoffman portrays Lenny as a man with a sharp tongue & a flawed soul, giving us a questionable hero, made pure out of heart & flesh. Perrine soars as his troubled wife Honey. Honey died nearly 40 years after Lenny's demise & Perrine immerses herself into the part. Its a knock-out performance, that proves her powerhouse talent. Its no surprise that both, Hoffman & Perrine, earned Oscar-Nominations for their work here!On the whole, 'Lenny' is far from perfection, but the acting here, is beyond perfection.

There were a load of great standup comedians active at the time anyone of whom would have made a better choice, such as Frank Gorshin who was a great impressionist and wickedly funny too. Hoffman gave a dry as dust performance, which completely let down his legion of countercultural fans. What's more he was too short for the part. At the time, the movie industry had abandoned its tried and true approach, moved its headquarters East from Hollywood, and was producing a series of pretentious and often tasteless pictures, influenced by the European art-house film industry. In a misguided attempt to score with college educated moviegoers, the New York school ignored the proved popular taste of the audience in favor of a phoney attempt to culturally legitimize American movies by making them less commercial and more like their (usually less popular and less well-made) European counterparts.

The first time i've heard about Lenny Bruce, it was from my hero George Carlin and i must say right off the bat that i haven't heard or saw much material from Lenny before this film, (yeah i know, shame on me) but at least i didn't had any expectations whatsoever.Factual or not? Once again i couldn't care less, it was a great entertainment. If i want facts about an artist i'll read a biography or watch a documentary, i will certainly not document myself on somebody through Hollywood for obvious reasons, if you can't figure them out, get off my review right now...Great performances, great story, amazing cinematography and editing, i really loved that movie. The "interview style" approach was brilliant and the jazzy/black & white atmosphere was delightful. That one shot scene near the end is astonishing and very sad, that scene alone worth the movie.Censorship, obscenities, anti-conformism, power of words, drug abuse and freedom of speech could resume quite well this movie in my opinion; and it makes me realize that i can't _______ write whatever i _______ want (at least not here) even in 20 _______ 13 can you _______ believe that?!In one word: Entertaining....And ____ censorship!

Lenny is a great movie dealing with several social issues, shown from a celebrity perspective but they stand good from a common man's perspective. The timing to watch such movie could not have been better because recently only we lost the most popular human being off all times and I was comparing his….MJ's life to that of Lenny and they seemed quite similar especially the end. The movie also looked good probably because I did not how big of a personality this guy Lenny was (was written about in Time magazine n all) and my previous experience with such biographies hasn't been that great. The only safe bet I had was Dustin Hoffman and from the first scene he looked his usual best. The movie's style, of how Lenny derived his socio-comic material from his own experiences. The editing of the scenes where what was happening in his life, was being laughed upon in a subsequent scene by audience when Lenny put them in his own comical fashion. In the starting when he did that, I thought he was a shallow personality but on the other hand I think he was a strong personality who brought all those social issues to a bigger audience for people to learn from them. Also a lot of things he was accused of back in the days…most of them are a common thing today…so we can say he was ahead of time. Bottom line: everybody got problems…its just that we get to hear about celebrities' only