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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "When I was accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, I proposed a thesis on three 'generalists,' authors who wrote a little of everything: Edmund Wilson, Dwight Macdonald and Goodman. The world was spared my thesis when the Sun-Times made me its film critic." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 01/06/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...poet, teacher, social critic, guru without portfolio... the film has a passionate, almost prophetic sense of the impact that a writer and thinker can have on his times and the future." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 10/19/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...no matter what people say about the abrasive intellectual, who was 60 when he died of a heart attack in 1972, there's no denying that he had a vast influence on public discourse in the '60s." (Read the full review...) 203 words, 10/19/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "When I was accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, I proposed a thesis on three 'generalists,' authors who wrote a little of everything: Edmund Wilson, Dwight Macdonald and Goodman. The world was spared my thesis when the Sun-Times made me its film critic." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 01/06/12 Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and general pain-in-the-ass gadfly Paul Goodman is as much endangered-species doc as biography." (Read the full review...) 235 words, 10/19/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...quietly effective... director Jonathan Lee does his best to explore the hidden side of the public figure in interviews with subjects including Grace Paley, William F. Buckley and Susan Sontag." (Read the full review...) 419 words, 12/09/11 Guy Dixon, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "You were either part of the establishment or part of the youth movement. Goodman was neither.... He was his own person." (Read the full review...) 619 words, 12/09/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a portrait of a man who was quite literally too complicated for his times." (Read the full review...) 224 words, 12/08/11
Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...effectively uses Goodman's poems to illustrate his life.... it's sad and a bit shocking when one old friend says, 'He had little ability to be comfortable as the man he was.' " (Read the full review...) 430 words, 12/30/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...doesn't make its subject nearly as relevant to our current discontents as it could.... Director Jonathan Lee misses a chance to hook his subject's ideas up with those galvanizing the social protests of today." (Read the full review...) 599 words, 01/04/12
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and general pain-in-the-ass gadfly Paul Goodman is as much endangered-species doc as biography." (Read the full review...) 235 words, 10/19/11 Sam Adams, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "...revelatory.... Perhaps it's a tribute to the breadth of Goodman's life that even after 90 minutes, it feels as if we've just scratched the surface." (Read the full review...) 411 words, 10/20/11 Bill Weber, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "Goodman's tireless display of attitude throughout his 60 years of diverse pursuits comes across crisply in Jonathan Lee's documentary that, of necessity, can only summarize his literary oeuvre." (Read the full review...) 700 words, 10/17/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a portrait of a man who was quite literally too complicated for his times." (Read the full review...) 224 words, 12/08/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...poet, teacher, social critic, guru without portfolio... the film has a passionate, almost prophetic sense of the impact that a writer and thinker can have on his times and the future." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 10/19/11
Ronnie Scheib, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...helmer Jonathan Lee interviews a slew of artists and literati for whom Goodman stood as a seminal figure, while showcasing his famously intransigent personality in excerpts from his public appearances." (Read the full review...) 540 words, 08/15/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...poet, teacher, social critic, guru without portfolio... the film has a passionate, almost prophetic sense of the impact that a writer and thinker can have on his times and the future." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 10/19/11
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