At times, Woody Harrelson doesn't look as much like the 36 th American president as he does like some Dick Tracy villain, the lower half of his face so hung with artificial jowls it can barely move.

Woody Harrelson isn't the first actor to play President Lyndon B. Johnson, but he may be the closest match. Harrelson stepped out onto the LBJ set decked in fake ears, a fake nose and way more ...

Watch Deadline's video review of 'LBJ,' the biopic from Rob Reiner starring Woody Harrelson as President Lyndon Johnson.

And Rob Reiner’s “LBJ” is an often pedestrian, sometimes punchy, well-acted biopic that gives the mightily capable Woody Harrelson the reins of the country’s 36th commander in chief.

Now it’s Woody Harrelson’s turn to play our thirty-sixth president on-screen. Why can’t we get enough of a man once regarded as utterly devoid of glamour? It was my second encounter with LBJ ...

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Woody Harrelson stars in a film focused more on the liberal legacy of the 36th president than on the escalation of the Vietnam War. (Sam Emerson/Electric Entertainment/Acacia Filmed Entertainment) ...

If not for a strong central performance by Woody Harrelson, director Rob Reiner’s “LBJ” would be a no-hoper: a well-intended but ham-fisted biographical drama of our 36th president, a power ...

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Woody Harrelson, standing, as Lyndon Johnson in “LBJ.” But Harrelson embodies the Texan’s endless drive, his careful craftiness — and his surprising, never-satisfied need for love.

Woody Harrelson takes the oath of office as Lyndon Johnson in Rob Reiner’s film “LBJ.” Courtesy of Electric Entertainment ...