Grey Gardens Reviews
Common Sense Media
Tragicomic docu of aging eccentrics won't appeal to kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO] "Grey Gardens" plays like an all too real version of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" It is a backdoor view into of New York's 20th century aristocracy.
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| Original Score: A+
Nashville Scene
A newly struck print of the [Maysles] brothers' 1976 classic Grey Gardens proves that their work is still plenty provocative--and especially so in this era of shallow celebrity docs.
eFilmCritic.com
Borderline exploitative. But the stark power of the dual portrait can't be denied.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Habit
An editor's exercise: take footage shot 30 years ago for another film, and edit it into a new movie
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| Original Score: 3/4
Chicago Tribune
Top CriticGrey Gardens became a cult film in the '70s, when mavericks and outsiders were the heroes and heroines and the Beales were valued for their alternative world and their priceless eccentricity.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Filmcritic.com
No film - no Tennessee Williams adaptation, nothing by Guy Maddin or Lynch, no genre-exploding Japanese horror flick - has ever had a stranger pair of characters at its core.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TheMovieReport.com
The film's real fascination, however, does not come through some morbid freak show angle but in its study of this strangely symbiotic relationship.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
At first blush, the film may seem like an invitation to mockery, but the more one uncovers of the vast history of the Beales at Grey Gardens, the more the film becomes a monument to the fiercely independent nature of these two staunch characters.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
An endearing and impromptu sociological study
| Original Score: 5/5
MovieMartyr.com
There's an undeniable skill on The film feels pretty exploitative, even as the Beales insist that it's not exploiting them at all.
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| Original Score: 3/4
LarsenOnFilm
There is something unseemly in the choice to document the Beales at all.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Depressing cinéma vérité film.
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| Original Score: C+
