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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
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 42/100 |
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. Full Review |
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A rich and uplifting film. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This is an exceedingly friendly portrait, a disarming one, too. The filmmaker invites us to reconsider the author as someone warmer and less intimidating than his body of work. On that count, Wrestling With Angels succeeds. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
[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. Full Review |
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A worthwhile but imperfect film. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Wrestling with Angels is personal and intimate, insightful about Kushner as well as instructive about his collection of works. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Wrestling With Angels is a canny piece of filmmaking, sure to absorb both audiences familiar with Kushner's plays and those who know little or nothing about him. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A sentimental valentine to a man who, underneath it all, simply wants to move people with his message. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Flaws aside, Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner is still worth a look for its glimpse at one of the leading voices of 21st century American drama. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
While Wrestling With Angels is definitely a worthwhile experience, you'd expect it to be a more dramatic one, considering what Kushner has produced. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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It’s a loving film, but Kushner’s own characters are more richly textured than Mock’s depiction of the playwright and the divided, divisive world he’s trying to fathom. Full Review |
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The essence of the film is that [Kushner], with not a touch of evangelistic pomp, cannot conceive of life as anything other than a campaign to improve life. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
An overly adoring but still quite interesting profile of the writer. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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