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And Everything Is Going Fine has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...a tour de force of smart and sensitive editing. Drawing on recordings of stage appearances, television interviews with MTV and Charlie Rose, and other videotaped conversations, this documentary is as digressive and, miraculously, as coherent as the monologues that are its principal inspiration." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 12/10/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's easy to understand why Steven Soderbergh assembled this deftly edited compilation of Spalding Gray's life work. Indeed, there are moving and memorable moments that will spark nostalgic joy for fans. But those unfamiliar with Gray..." (Read the full review...) 102 words, 12/10/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "The laziness of this filmmaking is of a piece with the emphatically uninteresting tales told by a classic dinner-party bore who once referred to his ramblings as 'creative narcissism.' He was half-right." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 12/10/10 Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "...lacks the form and feel of a Gray monologue. Little of his stage persona is found here. We don't learn much about his craft or offstage life." (Read the full review...) 308 words, 02/18/11 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "[A] fascinating posthumous documentary on the writer/actor/monologist... both an invaluable portfolio of [Spalding Gray's] talent, and a tribute rendered in the style of its subject." (Read the full review...) 267 words, 12/08/10 Greg Quill, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "[A] startlingly raw documentary tribute to the late monologist... [a] meticulous, insightful and comprehensive reconstruction of Gray's personality and life story..." (Read the full review...) 495 words, 03/09/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "Soderbergh's editing neatly duplicates Gray's methods, showing us how memory treats the same material at different stages in a life, applying those different coats and shades of lacquer. It's a poignant approach..." (Read the full review...) 688 words, 03/11/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Gray's material remains as funny, honest and joyous as it ever was, though of course our melancholy knowledge of his death undercuts some of the high points." (Read the full review...) 240 words, 03/10/11
Dan Kois, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a brilliantly conceived documentary, one with uncommon respect for -- and understanding of -- its subject's life and art." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 01/28/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a kind of séance. You're left with as rich a sense of this man as you would in a more typical work of nonfiction. But the film's deceptive, meticulous editing also reveals that Gray's odd ambition met a cultural moment in which it could take root and thrive." (Read the full review...) 633 words, 01/14/11 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "By no means is all of Gray's material bleak - he shows a good-humored sense of absurdity, and there are moments of warmth, no less. But it would be wrong to deny the melancholy thread that runs through..." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 02/18/11 Misha Berson, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This is not a standard bio-documentary. It is the artist giving us a guided tour of himself, through a mosaic of clips from his shows and TV interviews, craftily assembled by Soderbergh..." (Read the full review...) 396 words, 01/14/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the blend of gratitude and regret that this film imparts is a fitting farewell indeed." (Read the full review...) 578 words, 02/04/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "[A] fascinating posthumous documentary on the writer/actor/monologist... both an invaluable portfolio of [Spalding Gray's] talent, and a tribute rendered in the style of its subject." (Read the full review...) 267 words, 12/08/10 Eugenia Williamson, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "Soderbergh shows the highlights of Gray's monologues, which, without context, can fall flat. That said, even a person who never heard of Gray can appreciate 'And Everything Is Going Fine' as a feat of editing." (Read the full review...) 150 words, 01/13/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a celebration of Gray's irrepressible lust for life and bottomless curiosity about the strange and beautiful world around him. It does justice to a subject who made his life and death works of art." (Read the full review...) 321 words, 12/09/10 Bill Weber, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...clips of [Spalding Gray's] shows as well as media interviews and private footage have been culled and shaped by Steven Soderbergh into a chronological map of the artist's lifelong battle with depression, which ended with his self-inflicted death by drowning in 2004." (Read the full review...) 469 words, 12/06/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Gray's material remains as funny, honest and joyous as it ever was, though of course our melancholy knowledge of his death undercuts some of the high points." (Read the full review...) 240 words, 03/10/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...a tour de force of smart and sensitive editing. Drawing on recordings of stage appearances, television interviews with MTV and Charlie Rose, and other videotaped conversations, this documentary is as digressive and, miraculously, as coherent as the monologues that are its principal inspiration." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 12/10/10
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...works hauntingly well as [Spalding Gray's] posthumous autobiography. Brilliant editing of a slew of performance and interview footage, much of it suitably raw, locates every chilling irony within a deeply poetic life." (Read the full review...) 644 words, 01/24/10 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "Soderbergh fills a need with this film -- stepping back from the self-told tales that sometimes revealed less than they appeared to, affording some perspective and satisfying our curiosity without dwelling on the morbid or voyeuristic." (Read the full review...) 505 words, 03/21/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...a tour de force of smart and sensitive editing. Drawing on recordings of stage appearances, television interviews with MTV and Charlie Rose, and other videotaped conversations, this documentary is as digressive and, miraculously, as coherent as the monologues that are its principal inspiration." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 12/10/10
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