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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
Andy Webster, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...operates on many levels, all riveting.... the arc of a marriage, the death of a daughter and the seeming disillusionment of a selfless, if steely-eyed and implacable, civil servant." (Read the full review...) 271 words, 09/23/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a remarkable feat of personalized biography.... addresses a security-paranoid nation's covert sins with skeptical smarts and a respectful son's understandable compassion." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 10/14/11 Aaron Hillis, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...streamlines and connects two vital relationships -- one familial, the other between a man and his country.... an enduring treatise on how character flaws affect policy." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 09/21/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...fascinating, if frustrating..." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 10/28/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...offers both a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of old-school espionage and a poignant memoir from a son still trying to make sense of who his father was, and what he did." (Read the full review...) 393 words, 01/20/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...explores the powerful psychological pressures that the Colby family endured... even his own son can't penetrate Colby's bedeviling, sphinx-like reserve." (Read the full review...) 179 words, 12/09/11 Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Hard as it is to bring off a documentary about an elusive man, it's that much harder when elusiveness was what the man did for a living - and he was your father." (Read the full review...) 736 words, 11/18/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...makes an interesting case study in the cool-hand psychology of intelligence operatives, but the viewer comes away with zero understanding of [Colby] as a human being." (Read the full review...) 253 words, 12/02/11 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "It is a strength of the narrative that Carl Colby neither lionizes nor condemns his dad, but seeks to understand him in the context of the history he made." (Read the full review...) 164 words, 01/20/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "The best part of the film makes a persuasive case that Colby was a tortured soul. Then a sad epilogue explains why Colby isn't around to answer further questions." (Read the full review...) 250 words, 11/18/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "There's a reason spies are called spooks; it's as if they have no human essence. If William Colby had one, his son hasn't found it in this film. But he has found the emptiness. And that's something." (Read the full review...) 370 words, 12/16/11
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...streamlines and connects two vital relationships -- one familial, the other between a man and his country.... an enduring treatise on how character flaws affect policy." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 09/21/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a valiant but ultimately futile attempt to understand William Colby, the ex-CIA head who died in 1996." (Read the full review...) 154 words, 11/17/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...far better with matters of the public record than with matters of the home, which may sum up its subject better than any talking-head interview." (Read the full review...) 378 words, 09/22/11 Kalvin Henely, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a character study that doubles as a history lesson.... the documentary's overall portrait is of a man who rose to importance through a steadfast dedication to serving his country..." (Read the full review...) 449 words, 09/23/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...powerful isn't the word, although shattering may be, for the conclusion that the son, Carl Colby, reaches at the end of his lonely quest." (Read the full review...) 333 words, 10/14/11 Andy Webster, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...operates on many levels, all riveting.... the arc of a marriage, the death of a daughter and the seeming disillusionment of a selfless, if steely-eyed and implacable, civil servant." (Read the full review...) 271 words, 09/23/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a remarkable feat of personalized biography.... addresses a security-paranoid nation's covert sins with skeptical smarts and a respectful son's understandable compassion." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 10/14/11
Ronnie Scheib, Daily Variety: GOOD "...ambitious, decades-spanning... deeply into historical events William Colby helped to shape... Although much of the documentary is given over to its subject's private life, it never feels particularly intimate..." (Read the full review...) 500 words, 09/22/11 Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "...as emotionally, as it is historically, intriguing, even if the filmmaker ultimately admits that he's never quite able to get to the bottom of his subject's enigmatic personality." (Read the full review...) 436 words, 09/23/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a remarkable feat of personalized biography.... addresses a security-paranoid nation's covert sins with skeptical smarts and a respectful son's understandable compassion." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 10/14/11 Andy Webster, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...operates on many levels, all riveting.... the arc of a marriage, the death of a daughter and the seeming disillusionment of a selfless, if steely-eyed and implacable, civil servant." (Read the full review...) 271 words, 09/23/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...powerful isn't the word, although shattering may be, for the conclusion that the son, Carl Colby, reaches at the end of his lonely quest." (Read the full review...) 333 words, 10/14/11
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