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A haunting depiction of a disintegrating family, and a powerful argument on the elusiveness of truth.
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While with any number of... documentaries one can happily say "wait until it turns up on the small screen", with Capturing the Friedmans it is well worth sitting in the dark to find out the extent to which you think you are being deliberately kept there. Jan 9, 2018 | Full Review…
While with any number of... documentaries one can happily say "wait until it turns up on the small screen", with Capturing the Friedmans it is well worth sitting in the dark to find out the extent to which you think you are being deliberately kept there.
Will Self
Without a doubt a disconcertingly engrossing, difficult-to-shake experience. Jul 25, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Without a doubt a disconcertingly engrossing, difficult-to-shake experience.
Geoff Pevere
Disturbing, yet undeniably fascinating. Jul 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/4
Disturbing, yet undeniably fascinating.
Jennie Punter
It takes the concept of reality television and twists it into a shocking but poignant art form. Jul 25, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
It takes the concept of reality television and twists it into a shocking but poignant art form.
Bill Muller
Watching this remarkable production is like going on safari to that creepy world. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't, not for a minute, want to live there. Jul 22, 2003 | Rating: 5/5
Watching this remarkable production is like going on safari to that creepy world. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't, not for a minute, want to live there.
Jay Boyar
The MPAA doesn't have a rating for queasy-making and heartbreaking. If it did, then Capturing the Friedmans would carry an advisory. Jul 22, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4
The MPAA doesn't have a rating for queasy-making and heartbreaking. If it did, then Capturing the Friedmans would carry an advisory.
Lisa Kennedy
There's no doubt that the film delivers the emotional equivalent of a kidney punch, but that's as much a result of the filmmaker's attitude-better suited to entomological research-as it is to the Friedmans themselves. Apr 10, 2018 | Full Review…
There's no doubt that the film delivers the emotional equivalent of a kidney punch, but that's as much a result of the filmmaker's attitude-better suited to entomological research-as it is to the Friedmans themselves.
Amy Taubin
Captivating and intense. Mature teens+. Jan 1, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Captivating and intense. Mature teens+.
Hollis Griffin
Like the darkest pop song Billy Joel never wrote, "Friedmans" hauntingly asked how far faith goes when it comes to family, how much mercy we'd grant them based merely on our memories and how forgiveness sometimes endures years of fury before it's granted. Sep 25, 2010 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Like the darkest pop song Billy Joel never wrote, "Friedmans" hauntingly asked how far faith goes when it comes to family, how much mercy we'd grant them based merely on our memories and how forgiveness sometimes endures years of fury before it's granted.
Nick Rogers
Probing into the elusive nature of truth, through the prism of one Jewish family, this is one of the most perplexing and disturbing docus in American film history Jun 30, 2005 | Rating: A
Probing into the elusive nature of truth, through the prism of one Jewish family, this is one of the most perplexing and disturbing docus in American film history
Emanuel Levy
...an insane document, a slice of life that we probably should never have seen. But now that we have seen it, it's too late to deny its crippling poignancy... Jan 2, 2005 | Rating: A
...an insane document, a slice of life that we probably should never have seen. But now that we have seen it, it's too late to deny its crippling poignancy...
Philip Martin
Much of this information could have been delivered in a way that respected the Friedmans, even if they did not respect each other. Dec 6, 2004 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Much of this information could have been delivered in a way that respected the Friedmans, even if they did not respect each other.
Jeffrey Overstreet
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