Pajamas Media - An Academy Member talks out of school - Part 2: "Now I admit, having lately left the liberal 'church,' my views of this film may be suspect. I did find peculiar, however, (though not surprising) the movie's complete omission or ignorance of newly revealed details from that period, including the discovery of KGB files indicating Hiss, the Rosenbergs, etc., actually did spy for Stalin, passing atomic secrets to a regime that murdered tens of millions of its own people. Although this does not exonerate the repellent and opportunistic McCarthy, it makes for a more complex vision of those times and a much more interesting film."

McCarthy was more right than the McCarthy demonizers would let on.