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Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "Burroughs' life off the page was as fascinating as the scatological doom poetry in his masterpiece 'Naked Lunch'.... a well-made but overly idolizing doc." (Read the full review...) 85 words, 11/26/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: EXCELLENT "There is not a word or image wasted in a documentary you wish ran an extra half-hour beyond its condensed 90 minutes. It is all either blood-chilling or hilarious." (Read the full review...) 769 words, 11/17/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The author of 'Naked Lunch' and his words were funny, freaky and sometimes just Out There. Yet as 'there' became 'here,' Leyser shows, Burroughs seemed to be everywhere." (Read the full review...) 234 words, 11/19/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a welcome addition to the biographical canon -- less as clear-eyed investigation than for the intimate and moving portrait it paints." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/25/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a Harvard-educated druggie.... He abandoned his only son; obsessed over guns, male hustlers and cats; and wrote the subversive classics 'Naked Lunch,' 'Queer' and 'Junkie.' " (Read the full review...) 316 words, 11/17/10 Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Burroughs' last written words were: 'Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller there is. LOVE.' The former heroin addict had scored one final line." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 01/21/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...polished enough to effectively perpetuate the Burroughs legend, while reiterating that the '50s were such a drag that the Beats had to invent nonconformity..." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 11/17/10
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a breezily stylized, very enjoyable trot through the writer's life, theme by theme, era by era.... The author refused to be considered the godfather of punk or gay liberation, once declaring 'I'm sure as hell not part of any movement.' " (Read the full review...) 620 words, 02/04/11 David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...can be enjoyed both by Burroughs aficionados and by neophytes eager to learn what all the fuss is about." (Read the full review...) 200 words, 03/11/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...polished enough to effectively perpetuate the Burroughs legend, while reiterating that the '50s were such a drag that the Beats had to invent nonconformity..." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 11/17/10 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Fairly disorganized in the telling and rather impersonally told by filmmaker Yony Leyser... still worth seeing. There's lots of prime footage of Burroughs..." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 02/03/11 Keith Phipps, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...offers a concise summary of Burroughs' life and works. Maybe too concise.... hits all the major touchstones..." (Read the full review...) 383 words, 11/11/10 Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...interspersed with talking heads from the periphery of the Beats' circle... Laurie Anderson, Genesis P-Orridge, David Cronenberg, Iggy Pop, Thurston Moore (who provides some music), and John Waters." (Read the full review...) 660 words, 11/15/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: EXCELLENT "There is not a word or image wasted in a documentary you wish ran an extra half-hour beyond its condensed 90 minutes. It is all either blood-chilling or hilarious." (Read the full review...) 769 words, 11/17/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a welcome addition to the biographical canon -- less as clear-eyed investigation than for the intimate and moving portrait it paints." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/25/10
John Anderson, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...does real justice to the Beat writer, gun nut and literary icon.... filmmaker Yony Leyser strives to disengage from the conventional, while still being lucid. He succeeds admirably." (Read the full review...) 455 words, 01/28/10 Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Hagiographic portrait of the controversial Beat Generation writer will best be appreciated by fans." (Read the full review...) 340 words, 11/18/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a welcome addition to the biographical canon -- less as clear-eyed investigation than for the intimate and moving portrait it paints." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/25/10 Stephen Holden, New York Times: EXCELLENT "There is not a word or image wasted in a documentary you wish ran an extra half-hour beyond its condensed 90 minutes. It is all either blood-chilling or hilarious." (Read the full review...) 769 words, 11/17/10
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