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As sharp, funny, and scathingly irreverent as its subject, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins pays entertaining tribute to a brilliant writer.
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Janice Engel's loving portrait of perhaps the most famous liberal journalist in Texas history (there must be a few others, right?) feels a bit like a pitch for a biopic. That is to say, it's more portrait than story. Oct 12, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Janice Engel's loving portrait of perhaps the most famous liberal journalist in Texas history (there must be a few others, right?) feels a bit like a pitch for a biopic. That is to say, it's more portrait than story.
Matthew Lickona
[A] documentary that makes the case for how much the outspoken journalist's voice is missed today. Oct 4, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
[A] documentary that makes the case for how much the outspoken journalist's voice is missed today.
Adam Graham
This movie just a hoot and a half. Sep 16, 2019 | Full Review…
This movie just a hoot and a half.
Christy Lemire
[A]s depicted in this sprightly, fast-paced documentary directed by Janice Engel, Ivins was a one-of-a-kind commentator who was both smart and savagely funny, using a take-no-prisoners sense of humor to eviscerate those she felt abused the public trust. Sep 12, 2019 | Full Review…
[A]s depicted in this sprightly, fast-paced documentary directed by Janice Engel, Ivins was a one-of-a-kind commentator who was both smart and savagely funny, using a take-no-prisoners sense of humor to eviscerate those she felt abused the public trust.
Kenneth Turan
There's a sense in which Ivins doesn't quite fit in the documentary either - or rather what fits in is great, but what doesn't fit in (emotionally, personally) - gets left out, and that matters a lot. Sep 11, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's a sense in which Ivins doesn't quite fit in the documentary either - or rather what fits in is great, but what doesn't fit in (emotionally, personally) - gets left out, and that matters a lot.
Mark Feeney
With free speech under attack, and truth-telling seemingly in short supply, "Raise Hell" offers an entertaining and bracing look at one of journalism's least punch-pulling practitioners. Sep 10, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
With free speech under attack, and truth-telling seemingly in short supply, "Raise Hell" offers an entertaining and bracing look at one of journalism's least punch-pulling practitioners.
Michael O'Sullivan
It instead works because the film operates in and plays with its grey area, entirely uninterested in going towards any true 'side.' It, like Ivins, knows these polarities as a construct. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
It instead works because the film operates in and plays with its grey area, entirely uninterested in going towards any true 'side.' It, like Ivins, knows these polarities as a construct.
Matt Cipolla
Perhaps what stands out most of all is how disarming Ivins was in spite of her sharp tongue. Dec 11, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Perhaps what stands out most of all is how disarming Ivins was in spite of her sharp tongue.
Pete Vonder Haar
One wonders what Ivins' might have made of such adulating celebrations of reporters, but she would have raised a beer to the final sections of the documentary that add some warts to the portrait. Dec 10, 2019 | Full Review…
One wonders what Ivins' might have made of such adulating celebrations of reporters, but she would have raised a beer to the final sections of the documentary that add some warts to the portrait.
Pat Mullen
Janice Engel's film is a rollicking re-acquaintance with Ivins' distinctive drawl, and we can't help but wonder what she'd say about our current ominous political climate. Likely, there would be some swearing involved. Oct 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Janice Engel's film is a rollicking re-acquaintance with Ivins' distinctive drawl, and we can't help but wonder what she'd say about our current ominous political climate. Likely, there would be some swearing involved.
Rob Thomas
Really, all Janice Engel had to do was run as many old videos of the great Molly Ivins, journalist and iconoclast, to entertain her worshippers... But Engel does more than that in this classic biopic. Oct 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Really, all Janice Engel had to do was run as many old videos of the great Molly Ivins, journalist and iconoclast, to entertain her worshippers... But Engel does more than that in this classic biopic.
Martha K. Baker
A fleet footed and loving introduction to the work of a gunslinger scribe. Oct 9, 2019 | Full Review…
A fleet footed and loving introduction to the work of a gunslinger scribe.
Glenn Heath Jr.
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