Mule Skinner Blues Reviews
Offoffoff
Beanie's a big believer in appreciating the art in your own neighborhood even if it isn't backed by a multimillion-dollar budget - and so am I.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Chicago Tribune
Top CriticThough director Earnhart has yet to find the ironic distance, sharp interviewing techniques or creative editing of documentarians like Chris Smith ... and Errol Morris ... Mule Skinner Blues suggests he is on the right track.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Oregonian
It will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster.
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| Original Score: B
As amusing as it often is, it is even more affectionate.
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| Original Score: 4/5
New Times
We get some truly unique character studies and a cross-section of Americana that Hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed.
Filmcritic.com
A treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
This is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why art matters, and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Reel.com
What emerges is not only a portrait of some of the more colorful denizens of Mayport, Florida, but also a moving examination of the power of art to transform lives.
| Original Score: 3/4
Watching Beanie and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Boisterous and daft documentary.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
It might be tempting to regard Mr. Andrew and his collaborators as oddballs, but Mr. Earnhart's quizzical, charming movie allows us to see them, finally, as artists.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
By the time we learn that Andrew's Turnabout Is Fair Play is every bit as awful as Borchardt's Coven, we can enjoy it anyway.
Planet Sick-Boy
Definitely funny stuff, but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with.'
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Orlando Weekly
It's easy to forget the film's flaws when we're in the presence of Beanie.
Slant Magazine
Stephen Earnhart's homespun documentary Mule Skinner Blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Apollo Guide
Stephen Earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition - wearing a cloak of unsentimental, straightforward text - when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type.
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| Original Score: 40/100
Boston Phoenix
