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One of the great portraits of artists fighting, even with murderous rage, to reach the sublime.
100
Reflective, haunting, hilarious documentary.
89
Like a car crash in slo-mo, it's a riveting, beautiful mess.
88
Absorbing, artfully executed.
83
Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots.
80
This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism.
80
(Herzog's) tribute to Kinski doubles as a life-affirming monument to creation in all its variety.
75
About two men who both wanted to be dominant, who both had all the answers, who were inseparably bound together in love and hate, and who created extraordinary work--while all the time each resented the other's contribution.
75
German director Werner Herzog's fascinating, fond and often bitchy documentary recalling the late star of his most celebrated movies.
75
Herzog soft-pedals his cinematic ingenuity in this personal documentary about his love-hate relationship with Kinski, whose performances in Herzog classics...helped both of them become towering figures on the international movie scene before Kinski's untimely death.
