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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an engrossing documentary.... enormously affecting..." (Read the full review...) 657 words, 12/09/11
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Edmon Roch has a great story to tell, and he recounts it with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie... dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 11/18/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...nothing less than fascinating.... takes a fittingly inventive approach to the story of an operative whose MI5 code name reflected his supreme talents as an actor." (Read the full review...) 285 words, 11/25/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Fascinating though it is, the movie is thin on historical materials. The vast majority of the information is simply fed to us through talking heads, so for visuals we get stock footage cut to look campy." (Read the full review...) 348 words, 11/18/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an engrossing documentary.... enormously affecting..." (Read the full review...) 657 words, 12/09/11 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Director Edmon Roch's concept is strong: He's creating a dialogue between the fictions Juan Pujol invented to help win the war and the fictions Hollywood invented to memorialize that victory." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 11/16/11
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Documentarian Edmon Roch has an intriguing problem: How does one make a documentary about a cipher? In 'Garbo the Spy,' Roch solves that problem, and magnificently so." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 03/11/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "This is can't-miss stuff, but director Edmon Roch can't stop fidgeting enough to tell it straight.... his attention-getting craft is, finally, genuinely distracting from a tale that, truly, needs no goosing." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 01/06/12
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Director Edmon Roch's concept is strong: He's creating a dialogue between the fictions Juan Pujol invented to help win the war and the fictions Hollywood invented to memorialize that victory." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 11/16/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...can only suggest who Juan Pujol Garcia really was, and why he took it upon himself to fell a tyrant.... even without the fine psychological shading, Garcia's story is a doozy." (Read the full review...) 379 words, 11/17/11 Glenn Heath Jr., Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The wide range of genres on display (rock, classical, alternative) proves 'Garbo: The Spy' to be a bit schizophrenic, unsure of how to compute the massive amounts of information at hand." (Read the full review...) 659 words, 11/13/11
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Edmon Roch has a great story to tell, and he recounts it with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie... dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 11/18/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: WEAK "...director Edmon Roch takes a cinema verite approach to historical material, which never works, and forgoes narration.... 'Garbo the Spy' sometimes seems less interested in explaining Garcia than in merely reveling in his mystique." (Read the full review...) 547 words, 11/17/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...nothing less than fascinating.... takes a fittingly inventive approach to the story of an operative whose MI5 code name reflected his supreme talents as an actor." (Read the full review...) 285 words, 11/25/11
Jonathan Holland, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...a compelling, gracefully told account of an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of history." (Read the full review...) 613 words, 12/30/09 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "A true-life tale of espionage so brazen and crucial to World War II's outcome one marvels that it isn't better known... blow-by-blow of García's exploits never comes to life, and we get no sense at all of him as a person or of what made him such a virtuosic fabulist." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 11/18/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...nothing less than fascinating.... takes a fittingly inventive approach to the story of an operative whose MI5 code name reflected his supreme talents as an actor." (Read the full review...) 285 words, 11/25/11 Rachel Saltz, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Edmon Roch has a great story to tell, and he recounts it with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie... dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 11/18/11
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