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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat offers an insightful look into a key period of the artist's life, his peers and influences, and the early '80s art world.
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This could be deliberate, making the point that Basquiat was essentially unknowable, but it makes for a film that's considerably less engaging than its subject. June 22, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This could be deliberate, making the point that Basquiat was essentially unknowable, but it makes for a film that's considerably less engaging than its subject.
Kevin Maher
Because Basquiat started as a graffiti artist, many of his earliest works were destroyed, so the rare photos here, provided by his friend Alexis Adler, are illuminating. June 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Because Basquiat started as a graffiti artist, many of his earliest works were destroyed, so the rare photos here, provided by his friend Alexis Adler, are illuminating.
Andrea Gronvall
The film doesn't quite get under Basquiat's skin, but does a thorough job of reconstructing that forgotten city of late-70s New York in which Basquiat came of age. June 21, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film doesn't quite get under Basquiat's skin, but does a thorough job of reconstructing that forgotten city of late-70s New York in which Basquiat came of age.
Peter Bradshaw
Boom for Real is a fizzy, busy, enjoyable memorial to an age - even if it ends up seeming only the first part of a collective memory that will go on to include post-teenage Basquiat... June 20, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Boom for Real is a fizzy, busy, enjoyable memorial to an age - even if it ends up seeming only the first part of a collective memory that will go on to include post-teenage Basquiat...
Nigel Andrews
This is an engaging, well-made film which benefits from its close focus on the artist at such a specific moment in his life. June 20, 2018 | Full Review…
This is an engaging, well-made film which benefits from its close focus on the artist at such a specific moment in his life.
Geoffrey Macnab
A robust and thoughtful profile of a landscape as seen through the prism of an artistic deity. June 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A robust and thoughtful profile of a landscape as seen through the prism of an artistic deity.
David Jenkins
The time and place is so miraculously captured that it feels like you're looking at life on another planet -- one where while punk-rock kids moved in the same circles as hip-hop performers, and the resulting art is a ragged and fully representational. June 17, 2020 | Full Review…
The time and place is so miraculously captured that it feels like you're looking at life on another planet -- one where while punk-rock kids moved in the same circles as hip-hop performers, and the resulting art is a ragged and fully representational.
Steven Prokopy
Boom for Real is a perfectly entertaining film, which accurately captures one of the most deliciously avant-garde settings in American history, but with every moment of "oh, cool" comes a missed opportunity to dig deeper. April 15, 2020 | Full Review…
Boom for Real is a perfectly entertaining film, which accurately captures one of the most deliciously avant-garde settings in American history, but with every moment of "oh, cool" comes a missed opportunity to dig deeper.
Dan Scully
Overexposure has at once gone deeper and flattened out the story. What else is there for people to say? February 14, 2020 | Full Review…
Overexposure has at once gone deeper and flattened out the story. What else is there for people to say?
Craig Hubert
We could just be the art world. December 5, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
We could just be the art world.
James Wegg
A life like this is never tidy and neither is Driver's documentary. Moving at speed, it reflects the impatience of the teenager, constantly switching from one thing to another December 3, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
A life like this is never tidy and neither is Driver's documentary. Moving at speed, it reflects the impatience of the teenager, constantly switching from one thing to another
Jennie Kermode
This potent love letter to Basquiat is also a Proustian remembrance of things past and a pre-gentrification New York City, where anything seemed possible. November 3, 2018 | Full Review…
This potent love letter to Basquiat is also a Proustian remembrance of things past and a pre-gentrification New York City, where anything seemed possible.
Felicia Feaster
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