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Jun 7, 2013
90
It's a great trick the filmmakers have pulled off to make us feel as if we're there sorting through the memories with him. The movie's editing is especially artful with Maya Hawke and Casey Brooks doing the nipping and tucking.
Jun 20, 2013
88
He was many things, the documentary reveals, but self-serious was not among the late writer’s lengthy list of descriptors.
May 21, 2013
80
It’s to the filmmakers’ credit that we also see how insecurity and proximity to fame both drove him and drove him crazy, resulting in a layered look at a man who was a jack of all trades, but a master of one: being George.
May 21, 2013
80
A skilled portrait of a literary light shadowed by his public profile. The film, written and directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling, tacitly suggests a reconsideration of its subject, who deserves it.
Sep 12, 2013
80
A delightful look at the public career and mostly private life of the ultimate professional amateur.
Jun 21, 2013
75
Tom Bean and Luke Poling’s documentary shows that its subject’s true talent may have been for an occupation no less rarefied than the ones he failed at: movie star.
May 17, 2013
70
An entertaining profile of the self-avowed participatory journalist and his tumultuous life and times.
May 17, 2013
70
The ironies of Plimpton's life are handled delicately, made just obvious enough for viewers to mull themselves.
