Grizzly Man Reviews
Suite101.com
Werner Herzog forgoes judging Timothy Treadwell's disputed methods or questionable mental state - letting viewers decide based on footage that suggests Treadwell essentially sought some sort of transmutation from flesh to fur.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top CriticLike so much of Herzog's work, both narrative and documentary, this is an engrossing look at obsessive behavior gone terribly awry.
Treadwell, a failed TV actor, is presented as someone desperate to give and receive love. That he went to such extremes is tragic, but also, in Herzog's sympathetic eyes, deeply human.
Eye for Film
As a character critique it is hardly a mauling, for Herzog is too sophisticated a thinker, too respectful towards his subject, and altogether too humane to tear Treadwell apart for a second time.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Film Journal International
An amazing, provocative and ultimately creepy film.
Cinema em Cena
Uma das maiores obras-primas da carreira de um cineasta que vem conquistando, ao longo dos últimos 44 anos, um lugar mais do que merecido entre os ícones da Sétima Arte.
| Original Score: 5/5
Sacramento News & Review
After having gorged on nonfiction films that tell us what to think, Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man is an improbable palate cleanser, allowing us to not know what to think and encouraging us to admit as much.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
Part punk wildlife doc, part diary of a twisted soul, part cautionary tale, Grizzly Man is a complex, unique and engrossing journey into the murky recesses of an unhinged mind.
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| Original Score: 5/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Makes us feel like kids at a Punch and Judy show wanting to shout out "Behind you!"
Apollo Guide
A tremendous achievement, despite its niggling flaws.
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| Original Score: 80/100
Decent Films Guide
At turns fascinating and banal… a film that dances around vital questions about the human condition that it is barely able to articulate, let alone address.
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| Original Score: B-
Fascinating as both nature documentary and as a portrait of a narcissistic monomaniac, utterly in keeping with Herzogian type.
Guardian [UK]
He was enough of an amateur to be relaxed and unselfconscious, yet enough of a professional to generate all this outstanding footage, and quite rightly Herzog declines to patronise or make fun of him.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
Poignant, powerful and unforgettable.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ViewLondon
Fascinating documentary about obsession, insanity and, well, bears, this is by turns moving, disturbing and laugh-out-loud funny.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Window to the Movies
A psychological smorgasbord.
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| Original Score: 10/10
