National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Pollock

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.7/10 for Pollock). Pollock is the shorter watch at 2h 12m compared with 2h 15m. Pollock is the older of the two (2000 against 2023). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS Pollock posterPollock2000
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesPollock
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 6.7/10
Year20232000
Length2h 15m2h 12m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorJeremy HerrinEd Harris
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweJennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Bud Cort

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Pollock

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the…

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