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===Critical reception=== ''The Insider'' received some of the best reviews of 1999 and of Michael Mann's career. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], it has a 96% rating, based on 138 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Intelligent, compelling, and packed with strong performances, ''The Insider'' is a potent corporate thriller."<ref name="tomatoes">{{cite web |title=The Insider (1999) |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insider/ |access-date=November 29, 2024 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]]}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], it has a score of 84 out of 100, based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref name="meta">{{cite web |title=The Insider Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |url= http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-insider |access-date=March 5, 2018 }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade of "A–" on a scale of A+ to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title=INSIDER, THE (1999) A- |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, and praised "its power to absorb, entertain, and anger".<ref name="ebert">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=''The Insider'' |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=November 5, 1999 |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991105/REVIEWS/911050302/1023 |access-date=March 5, 2010 |archive-date=April 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409020411/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19991105%2FREVIEWS%2F911050302%2F1023 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine's [[David Ansen]] wrote, "Mann could probably make a movie about needlepoint riveting. Employing a big canvas, a huge cast of superb character actors and his always exquisite eye for composition, he's made the kind of current-events epic that Hollywood has largely abandoned to TV—and shows us how movies can do it better."<ref name="ansen">{{cite news |last=Ansen |first=David |title=Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |work=Newsweek |date=November 8, 1999 |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/90142 |access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> In her review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Janet Maslin]] praised Russell Crowe as "a subtle powerhouse in his wrenching evocation of Wigand, takes on the thick, stolid look of the man he portrays", and felt that it was "by far Mann's most fully realized and enthralling work".<ref name="maslin">{{cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|title=Mournful Echoes of a Whistle-Blower|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 5, 1999|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/movies/film-review-mournful-echoes-of-a-whistle-blower.html?scp=14&sq=%22Michael+Mann%22&st=nyt|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's [[Richard Corliss]] wrote, "When Crowe gets to command the screen, ''The Insider'' comes to roiled life. It's an ''All the President's Men'' in which [[Deep Throat (Watergate)|Deep Throat]] takes center stage, an insider prodded to spill the truth."<ref name="corliss">{{cite magazine |last = Corliss |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Corliss |title=Mournful Echoes of a Whistle-Blower|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=November 1, 1999|url= https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,992439,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080308111144/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992439,00.html |url-status= live |archive-date= March 8, 2008|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[Peter Travers]] wrote, "With its dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, ''The Insider'' offers Mann at his best—blood up, unsanitized, and unbowed."<ref name="travers">{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter | title=''The Insider''|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 8, 2000|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-insider-19991105|access-date=March 10, 2011}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the film a "B" rating, and felt that it was "a good but far from great movie because it presents truth telling in America as far more imperiled than it is".<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |title=''The Insider'' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=November 12, 1999 |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271589,00.html |access-date=March 5, 2010 |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425220434/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271589,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Director [[Quentin Tarantino]] included ''The Insider'' in his list of top 20 films released since 1992 (the year he became a director).<ref>{{cite web | title = Team America, Anything Else Among the Best Movies of the Past Seventeen Years, Claims Quentin Tarantino| last=Brown|first=Lane | work=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]] | date=August 17, 2009| publisher=New York Media LLC | url =http://www.vulture.com/2009/08/speed_and_team_america_among_q.html | access-date=September 13, 2016}}</ref>
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