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John Mellencamp: It's About You has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "...a small, pungent rock 'n' roll tour documentary... a very personal record of the 2009 summer tour of director Kurt Markus's friend, the Indiana-born rocker John Mellencamp.... has the oracular tone of a prose poem." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 01/04/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "Instead of personal or creative insight into the musician himself, we get trite observations from filmmaker Kurt Markus... every time Kurt opens his mouth you wish he would refocus and realize that, in fact, we've come to see a movie about someone else." (Read the full review...) 322 words, 01/06/12 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...unhurried, visually compelling... director Kurt Markus, whose low-key narration punctuates the journey, seems to have learned as much about himself as about his titular subject -- while enjoyably enlightening viewers about both." (Read the full review...) 227 words, 01/06/12 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR (cg) "...tedious... a singularly amateurish and unrevealing documentary, shot on grainy Super 8 film from an all-too-respectful distance." (Read the full review...) 168 words, 01/06/12 Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...an amateurish travelogue that feels like a botched assignment, halfheartedly self-regarding and resentfully remote from the object of our fascination." (Read the full review...) 244 words, 01/04/12
John Mellencamp: It's About You has not been reviewed in Key Cities
Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...an amateurish travelogue that feels like a botched assignment, halfheartedly self-regarding and resentfully remote from the object of our fascination." (Read the full review...) 244 words, 01/04/12 Noel Murray, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "...largely lacks the intimacy filmmaker Kurt Markus was striving to achieve. 'You shouldn't get too close on old people,' Mellencamp jokes at the start of the film, referring to the camera. Markus seems to have taken that advice as a guiding principle." (Read the full review...) 366 words, 01/05/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a kind of homespun video scrapbook, bumpy seams and glue splotches and all; it's flawed, but at least it feels handmade and human." (Read the full review...) 761 words, 01/06/12 Kalvin Henely, Slant: POOR (cg) "...ultimately a record of two amateurs, meaning well but under-skilled in the task of documenting a subject so crushingly larger and more appealing than themselves that their film serves no one... [It's] essentially a home movie..." (Read the full review...) 426 words, 01/01/12
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...the real subject of this film, with its philosophical voice-overs by the filmmaker and its haunting shots of decayed American downtowns, is the passage of time and the toll it takes.... an odd and touching little film." (Read the full review...) 332 words, 01/06/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "...a small, pungent rock 'n' roll tour documentary... a very personal record of the 2009 summer tour of director Kurt Markus's friend, the Indiana-born rocker John Mellencamp.... has the oracular tone of a prose poem." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 01/04/12 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...unhurried, visually compelling... director Kurt Markus, whose low-key narration punctuates the journey, seems to have learned as much about himself as about his titular subject -- while enjoyably enlightening viewers about both." (Read the full review...) 227 words, 01/06/12
Ronnie Scheib, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...split between Mellencamp's highly professional music-making and director Kurt Markus' hokey homemovie voiceovers. Luckily, the music trumps the indifferently shot concert footage and lends shape to the evocatively lensed recording sessions in iconic locations." (Read the full review...) 492 words, 01/03/12 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...unhurried, visually compelling... director Kurt Markus, whose low-key narration punctuates the journey, seems to have learned as much about himself as about his titular subject -- while enjoyably enlightening viewers about both." (Read the full review...) 227 words, 01/06/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "...a small, pungent rock 'n' roll tour documentary... a very personal record of the 2009 summer tour of director Kurt Markus's friend, the Indiana-born rocker John Mellencamp.... has the oracular tone of a prose poem." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 01/04/12 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...the real subject of this film, with its philosophical voice-overs by the filmmaker and its haunting shots of decayed American downtowns, is the passage of time and the toll it takes.... an odd and touching little film." (Read the full review...) 332 words, 01/06/12
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