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The Talent Given Us is an odd hybrid of reality and fiction, but works due to its engaging characters.
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Faux documentary, home movie or unexpurgated family therapy? The Talent Given Us, a funny, surprising ride with a mercurial New York clan, is all three. Oct 13, 2005 | Full Review…
Faux documentary, home movie or unexpurgated family therapy? The Talent Given Us, a funny, surprising ride with a mercurial New York clan, is all three.
Damon Smith
[A] one-of-a-kind movie that sends the family road-trip genre happily spinning into these self-obsessed, overanalytical times; it's National Lampoon's Vacation as re-imagined by Dr. Phil. Oct 13, 2005 | Rating: B+
[A] one-of-a-kind movie that sends the family road-trip genre happily spinning into these self-obsessed, overanalytical times; it's National Lampoon's Vacation as re-imagined by Dr. Phil.
Christopher Kelly
The notion that there is no escape from one's family is elevated-and ameliorated-by the inkling that the Wagners' story is, in fact, real. Oct 13, 2005
The notion that there is no escape from one's family is elevated-and ameliorated-by the inkling that the Wagners' story is, in fact, real.
Shauna Lyon
Ultimately, the movie isn't as strong as the idea behind the movie, or the people inside that idea. Oct 7, 2005 | Rating: C+
Ultimately, the movie isn't as strong as the idea behind the movie, or the people inside that idea.
Tom Long
What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine. Oct 7, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine.
Terry Lawson
If you enjoy HBO's cult hit Curb Your Enthusiasm, you're almost guaranteed to enjoy this bawdy, heartbreaking, deeply discomfiting mockumentary. Sep 29, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
If you enjoy HBO's cult hit Curb Your Enthusiasm, you're almost guaranteed to enjoy this bawdy, heartbreaking, deeply discomfiting mockumentary.
Jessica Reaves
It's a self-indulgent, utterly painful film that attempts to explore all sorts of genres, but it fails. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
It's a self-indulgent, utterly painful film that attempts to explore all sorts of genres, but it fails.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
The ranting, whining, kvetching, self-involved family begins to outstay its welcome [...] so that time spent with them can feel like entrapment at a raucous bar mitzvah reception. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
The ranting, whining, kvetching, self-involved family begins to outstay its welcome [...] so that time spent with them can feel like entrapment at a raucous bar mitzvah reception.
Doris Toumarkine
The unwashed talent and originality of "The Talent Given Us" makes it a compelling and fascinating film. Dec 1, 2005 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The unwashed talent and originality of "The Talent Given Us" makes it a compelling and fascinating film.
Robin Clifford
Maybe Andrew Wagner was hoping they would be endearingly human, but instead they come off as annoying, hardly the type of people we want to be stuck with for an hour and a half. Oct 14, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Maybe Andrew Wagner was hoping they would be endearingly human, but instead they come off as annoying, hardly the type of people we want to be stuck with for an hour and a half.
Jeff Vice
The result is a funny and sometimes touching docu-comedy, sort of like watching your parents if they were in the middle of a Woody Allen movie. Oct 14, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
The result is a funny and sometimes touching docu-comedy, sort of like watching your parents if they were in the middle of a Woody Allen movie.
Sean P. Means
Andrew Wagner's deeply original, awe-inspiring The Talent Given Us defies classification, another mongrel marvel traducing the boundaries of documentary and fiction. Oct 13, 2005 | Full Review…
Andrew Wagner's deeply original, awe-inspiring The Talent Given Us defies classification, another mongrel marvel traducing the boundaries of documentary and fiction.
Ray Pride
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