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88Showing the personal toll that produces a star in any field could be a soggy, predictable drag, but the documentary A Man's Story never slides into easy sentiment or bromides.
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75A fascinating look at the juggling act of a man who is succeeding in public, but still trying to find the answers in private.
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50As a flashy, country-hopping ridealong with a style icon, it will appeal to fashionistas, but you won't learn much about the high-end world of clothing design beyond its ability to stretch someone's schedule to the breaking point, and land that someone a gig outfitting Jamie Foxx and Will Smith.
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50Diehard fashionistas will likely want to see it, but few others will take notice.
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Nov 1, 201250An unsatisfying look at the London designer Ozwald Boateng, was shot over 12 years and aspires to a degree of intimacy, yet this glancing treatment is not very enlightening.
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50The result often plays more like a satire of the fashion industry than a serious look at one of the humans inside it.
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50Trouble is, even a finely tailored suit needs a body to fill it, and A Man's Story never gets its man.
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Oct 31, 201240Neither totally impartial nor a puff piece, Varon Bonicos's documentary on fashion icon Ozwald Boateng nonetheless evinces a minimal amount of interest in digging into what makes its subject tick.
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25A Man's Story does a major disservice to an artiste of fashion with a pretty amazing and prolific oeuvre by reducing him to a Bravo-like personality - a personality whose pettiness Boateng's work, though perhaps not his ego, clearly exceeds.