Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? Reviews
Seanax.com
John Sheinfeld's portrait revisits the man, the artist and the reputation, with a wealth of TV performance clips and interviews with friends, family and colleagues...
Oregonian
You will leave the theater singing, if with a touch of melancholy.
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| Original Score: B
Top CriticA personal, generous tribute reel designed to keep a musical master's legacy very much alive.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Boxoffice Magazine
On the one hand, the film is a cautionary too-much-too-soon story that was a cliché even before what Casey Kasem refers to as the Rock Era; on the other hand, it also has enough touching, amusing and/or appalling episodes to make it compulsively watchable
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| Original Score: 3/5
Conventional in style and is likely to mean more to the sadly forgotten musician's fans than to others.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The point of it is not, in the end, to explain him or solve the mystery of his life, but rather to spend time in his company and understand why he is someone to be missed.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
AV Club
There's been so little written about Nilsson or archiving of his work that Who Is Harry Nilsson is a godsend just for bringing together so much rare footage.
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| Original Score: B+
Who Is Harry Nilsson is a worthwhile portrait of a genius who made beautiful music, and a case study for how to tragically, epically self-destruct.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sticking closely to the archival footage and talking-heads formula, it's the quality of the former and the sense of personal involvement in the latter that elevates the film above the run-of-the-mill rockumentary.
Film Journal International
This rich portrait of a most complex artist beautifully, movingly and humorously explains the enigma, glory and tragedy of his life.
ColeSmithey.com
...does something that few such films accomplish: it allows the audience to feel as though they have walked a mile in a man's shoes.
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| Original Score: A
