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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:21
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: While not a particularly deep look at the man and his career, this documentary still serves as a nicely done introduction to Kushner.
Theatrical Release:Oct 4, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: One of our greatest living playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America) is a consummate artist and indomitable political activist committed to equality and... [More]
Director: Freida Lee Mock
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Reviews for Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
This uncritical cinematic embrace doesn't do justice to a playwright who never met a Brechtian dialectic he didn't want to ponder more deeply.
11/02/06
Freida Lee Mock's adulatory portrait makes for pleasant viewing -- but should it? Her subject is a professional rabble-rouser, an intellect determined to provoke a sleeping world into action.
10/06/06
I wish another director had chronicled the life and times of the vibrantly alert Tony Kushner: Mock's docu is diffuse, rambling, and fails to delve into some crucial issues pertaining to the playwright's creativity and personal life.
07/12/06
Beyond it's educational value for those unfamiliar with Kushner's work, politics, and sexuality (like myself), there's not much to grab onto here.
09/19/09
Mock is good at seizing a subject and exploiting it for her own purposes. But one doesn't get the feeling that she, unlike Tony Kushner, wants to get her hands dirty.
10/05/06
Top Critic[Director Freida Lee] Mock’s approach to Kushner is so casual and friendly that it never steps outside of his own life for a glimpse of its context.
12/30/06
A premature homage to an artist who -- while few doubt he will live up to his potential -- has yet to fully do so.
01/24/06
A golden opportunity to analyze the most vital and probably most creative contempo American playwright is missed.
01/24/06
Top CriticThe film suffers from a crucial lack of perspective.
01/24/06
Wrestling With Angels paints an intimate and detailed portrait of playwright Tony Kushner, in the years since he became the most important living American dramatist.
10/06/06
Top CriticWhile Wrestling With Angels is definitely a worthwhile experience, you'd expect it to be a more dramatic one, considering what Kushner has produced.
11/03/06
A rich and uplifting film.
03/01/07
Wrestling With Angels is better than a puff piece, getting at how Kushner's personal life has shaped the political and philosophical dimensions of his flawed but breathtaking plays, including the prescient Homebody/Kabul.
09/29/06
Even if you're not a fan of his work, it's a good thing to see, and is worth a view when it gets on TV sometime in the new year.
10/06/06
Although the analysis is far from deep, Mock's film succeeds as an above-average introduction to the playwright, especially to an audience unfamiliar with his work.
10/06/06
Wrestling with Angels could use some brouhaha: It's a bit too much of a pleasant air kiss from a fan, and doesn't engage inquisitively enough with Kushner's often controversial and very political ideas.
10/04/06
The final portrait is unquestionably entertaining, very occasionally teasing and largely adoring. Because Kushner is a devoted political commentator, his thoughts on everything from America's role in the world to the nature of Zionism are on full display.
01/12/07
A sentimental valentine to a man who, underneath it all, simply wants to move people with his message.
11/10/06
Mock's film leaves us with a sense of gratitude and relief that so thoughtful an artist as Kushner continues to work among us, capturing and reacting to the world as he buzzes through it.
10/03/06
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