Bombshell

Close but no cigar

If you saw Russell Crowe’s extraordinary portrayal of Roger Ailes in the Showtime miniseries The Loudest Voice, based on Gabriel Sherman’s exposé of sexual harassment at Fox News, you may be disappointed in John Lithgow’s turn as Ailes. This is one of the problems I have with this entertaining, otherwise well acted, but wobbly film by Jay Roach. Lithgow plays Ailes as a pathetic character rather than a spiteful, paranoid…