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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. Jun 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. Jun 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. Jun 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
A robust and thoughtful profile of a landscape as seen through the prism of an artistic deity. Jun 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
"Boom for Real" paints a stirring picture of a young artist on his way to the top. Jun 15, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…
"Boom for Real" paints a stirring picture of a young artist on his way to the top.
Adam Graham
What's admirable about the film is how Driver gives the cross-pollinating forces of music, media, fashion and art such concise, firsthand exploration. May 18, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
What's admirable about the film is how Driver gives the cross-pollinating forces of music, media, fashion and art such concise, firsthand exploration.
Nathalie Atkinson
We could just be the art world. Dec 5, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
We could just be the art world.
S. 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 Dec 2, 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. Nov 2, 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
The documentary's under-90-minute brevity makes these events feel like they are happening even faster than they did, creating a simulacra of witnessing Basquiat's talent. Aug 31, 2018 | Full Review…
The documentary's under-90-minute brevity makes these events feel like they are happening even faster than they did, creating a simulacra of witnessing Basquiat's talent.
Andrew Karpan
Down, delightfully dirty and almost impossible to reconcile with last year's record-breaking $110 million sale of Basquiat's untitled skull painting, Boom for Real is for real all right. Jul 23, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Down, delightfully dirty and almost impossible to reconcile with last year's record-breaking $110 million sale of Basquiat's untitled skull painting, Boom for Real is for real all right.
Tara Brady
Driver never uses interview footage, relying on the testimony of those present while capturing the club culture and underground galleries that were his home. It's a valuable insider's view: steeped in history, but shorn of nostalgia. Jul 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Driver never uses interview footage, relying on the testimony of those present while capturing the club culture and underground galleries that were his home. It's a valuable insider's view: steeped in history, but shorn of nostalgia.
Craig Mathieson
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