Conan O'Brien Can't Stop Reviews
Top CriticIt's hard to feel sorry for a guy who banked millions for not hosting "The Tonight Show" anymore, but it's also fascinating to see a man this compulsively driven to get back in front of people and tell jokes, to hear the laughter, to soak in the applause.
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| Original Score: 4/5
While a lot of geography is covered, as a concert film, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop is decidedly thin entertainment.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's ... entertaining, not to mention revealing about the emotional toll exacted upon people who, in O'Brien's words, "feed their bone marrow to the wood chipper that is television."
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| Original Score: 3/4
Meta-irony can get a guy who's still grinding an ax only so far.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Forget talk shows; Coco should keep touring and making films like this.
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| Original Score: B+
O'Brien admits he ended this moment in his life knowing himself a little better. We feel the same way.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Partly about the making of the stage show and partly about the anger and compulsion underlying the making of it, the movie is often very funny. And when it's not, it's revelatory.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's nice to know that the son of a lawyer and a microbiologist can get into Harvard and make something of himself.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Full of unenlightening snippets and blithe but banal asides, what the movie is missing is edge.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The film, like the tour, will satisfy the Conan cravings of hardcore fans the most, and prove an enjoyable enough diversion for the rest.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Everyone laughs at the boss's jokes, which are incessant to the point of irritation, but actual levity is in short supply.
Seeing his life from the inside, the impulse to judge him fades. You would not want to trade places.
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| Original Score: 3/4
In the aptly titled Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, we witness a performance addict with something to prove.
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| Original Score: B+
The documentary makes the case that O'Brien is too passionate, too complex, too driven to simply snap out of it.
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| Original Score: 3/4
If "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" is consistently watchable, it isn't especially funny, nor does it give any deeper insight into its star than you might get from seeing his late-night shows.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Substantially more than a vanity project if less than a three-dimensional portrait of the human stick figure with the shock of orangey hair.
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| Original Score: 3/4
There are solid laughs and meta-laughs to be had in "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop,'' but the movie is most worthwhile as a portrait of a celebrity in mid-hissy fit. A creative, self-aware hissy fit, but still.
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| Original Score: 3/4
What we are seeing is a man determined to vindicate himself after a public humiliation. People attend his shows, cheer him, like him. That proves something, doesn't it?
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| Original Score: 3/4
The whole thing becomes a sort of "Song of Myself" for needy multimillionaire comics at work and play.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
If the principal audience for "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" is obviously the comedian's legions of fans, it's probably most interesting as a detached study of the workings of fame.
An unexpectedly revealing, disconcerting documentary that benefits from the filmmaker's unmediated approach, his home-movie- quality visual style, and his controlled use of on-the-fly moments.
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| Original Score: A-
It's an equally insightful and excruciating journey, with our quip-ready protagonist perpetually caught between two modes: eager-to-please caffeinated and near-breakdown frustrated.
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| Original Score: 4/5
As protective of his persona as he's proven to be, any time he goes out of his way to insist that he's "keeping it real" scans as suspicious.
Simply an engaging, breathless road-trip portrait.
Conan O'Brien should take some satisfaction in the thought that Jay Leno will never earn as much laughter in half an hour as he and his crew does in the first third of Conan O'Brien Can't Stop.
The biggest laughs and most intriguing revelations are provided offstage in this slickly produced documentary
