The Outsider (2005)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 5
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved. From pre-production to final cut, Jarecki follows the existential-minded director through the entire process of making a movie as Toback opens up to the camera to discuss a variety of deeply personal matters and explore just how they have
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Quite entertaining.
Top CriticJarecki's tour of Toback's world may glean more than probe. But as these kinds of trips go, even looking at the scenery yields fascinating sights and stirs worthwhile curiosity.
As is often the case with Toback's films, even as you're shaking your head at his shameless self-indulgence, you can't help but keep on watching.
The Outsider, Nicholas Jarecki's starstruck documentary about the writer and director James Toback, is a tragically missed opportunity to illuminate one of the more unusual cinematic talents working today.
Jarecki certainly thinks his subject deserves such an accolade, and he's made a great-looking film to make his case, one that is edited gracefully and briskly -- and leaves the heady aftertaste of birthday cake.
Among the great docs about moviemaking.
Unless you're a fan, don't bother.
Toback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film.
Watching The Outsider is like mainlining pure movie love.
a piece of maddening hero worship
Shot largely during the production of Toback's feature, When Will I Be Loved, Outsider features extensive interviews with many of Toback's longtime friends and colleagues.
The Outsider doesn't have the edge of a race-conscious James Toback film.
Little more than a glorified DVD extra.
Seeing him at work provides little insight into what kind of man Toback is, or even what kind of director he is.
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