Tell Them Who You Are Reviews
Paste Magazine
Tell Them Who You Are radiates dignity, the unusual warmth given off by the frustration of trying to know someone.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Scouts
It's a remarkable documentary, thoroughly enjoyable and one of the most powerful films I've seen in quite some time.
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| Original Score: A
Top CriticIt works as a portrait of a father-son relationship that's awkward, volatile, uneven and always painfully real.
Kansas City Star
In the end this is a great movie about a filmmaker. It's also a great movie about fathers and sons.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Empire Magazine
A desperately sad look at two men whose determination to rebel against their heritage and succeed in their artform has rendered them unable to communicate. Compelling stuff, though.
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| Original Score: 3/5
BBC
With dad calling junior's filmmaking skills into question at every turn, this is a fascinating blend of fact and friction.
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| Original Score: 4/5
What we really get from son Mark's unusual take is a sterling movie about fathers (especially famous fathers) and offspring.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Filmcritic.com
a rare film of startling sincerity
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| Original Score: 4/5
[A] tremendously moving documentary.
Boston Phoenix
Equal parts fan mail and home video from Hell, Tell Them Who You Are is a fascinating piece of father-son psychotherapy à la Hollywood.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
The subject is a fascinating one, and the film is worth watching just to see how impressive Wexler's career has been.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Salt Lake Tribune
More than a Hollywood profile, it becomes a filmmaker's effort to figure out how he relates, personally and professionally, to his famous father.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Orlando Weekly
Unlike countless other bad-dad pictures, Tell Them moves gradually and elegantly toward a reconciliation that isn't too maudlin or forced.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Anyone who has been either a parent or a child will understand the push-me- pull-you, love-and-hate dynamic the film captures, and the attempt at reconciliation that it represents.
| Original Score: 3/4
EricDSnider.com
Not just a behind-the-scenes history chapter but an insightful father-son comedy-drama.
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| Original Score: B
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
The film is an odd hybrid, sort of a family therapy session meshed with a Turner Classic Movies tribute doc, but the combination works in entertaining and poignant ways.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4
Oregonian
As fascinating as all the film history is, the movie's core is the dynamic between a famous but distant parent and his child.
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| Original Score: B+
A vivid picture of a relationship that, like most, isn't quite picture-perfect.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
