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[A] nuanced and beguiling new documentary about the various things we all take from each other. January 27, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
[A] nuanced and beguiling new documentary about the various things we all take from each other.
David Ehrlich
Clearly and powerfully connects the painter with her muse in an arresting and unusual way. January 25, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Clearly and powerfully connects the painter with her muse in an arresting and unusual way.
Ed Gibbs
A documentary that looks at everyday humanity as a work of art. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
A documentary that looks at everyday humanity as a work of art.
Nick Allen
An engrossing Norwegian documentary born of the unlikely but resilient bond between a young female artist and a career criminal who stole two of her large canvases. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
An engrossing Norwegian documentary born of the unlikely but resilient bond between a young female artist and a career criminal who stole two of her large canvases.
Todd McCarthy
A stranger-than-fiction friendship story in which vérité techniques produce unbelievable results. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
A stranger-than-fiction friendship story in which vérité techniques produce unbelievable results.
Peter Debruge
The film builds as the double portrait that its title suggests, with Ree and his editorRobert Stengrd employing a flexible structure that sometimes shifts backwards in time so that our perspective is also being constantly challenged. February 13, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film builds as the double portrait that its title suggests, with Ree and his editorRobert Stengrd employing a flexible structure that sometimes shifts backwards in time so that our perspective is also being constantly challenged.
Amber Wilkinson
Through this story, which has plot twists too outlandish for a fictional film, Ree explores the give and take between artist and subject, and the weight of responsibility for a remorseful criminal and a forgiving victim. February 9, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Through this story, which has plot twists too outlandish for a fictional film, Ree explores the give and take between artist and subject, and the weight of responsibility for a remorseful criminal and a forgiving victim.
Sean P. Means
[Benjamin Ree's] approach, using their interviews as voiceover, filming their worlds with a patient eye for composition, creates a powerful diptych of redemption through compassion. February 7, 2020 | Full Review…
[Benjamin Ree's] approach, using their interviews as voiceover, filming their worlds with a patient eye for composition, creates a powerful diptych of redemption through compassion.
Stephen Garrett
he director uses inventive narrative techniques to move the story backwards and forwards in time, which can occasionally feel like he's imposing the story, rather than it being organic. February 7, 2020 | Full Review…
he director uses inventive narrative techniques to move the story backwards and forwards in time, which can occasionally feel like he's imposing the story, rather than it being organic.
Kaleem Aftab
Benjamin Ree's The Painter and the Thief is a distinct and riveting confluence of the two artistic mediums of documentary filmmaking and painting. February 1, 2020 | Full Review…
Benjamin Ree's The Painter and the Thief is a distinct and riveting confluence of the two artistic mediums of documentary filmmaking and painting.
Rahul Desai
It's cinema as profound emotional catharsis. You will be moved. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
It's cinema as profound emotional catharsis. You will be moved.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
A warm, moving, and often astonishing look at these two remarkable yet deeply flawed individuals. January 27, 2020 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A warm, moving, and often astonishing look at these two remarkable yet deeply flawed individuals.
Jason Gorber
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