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Arakimentari
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61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Eric Campos
    80
    Playing like a video coffee table book displaying some of the man's most notorious work.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    80
    Offers a fast, efficient and richly satisfying look at an iconoclastic artist and his groundbreaking work.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    The movie is overwhelmingly positive. It would have helped if Araki's critics had more of a say.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Viewers are left to draw their own conclusions, which inevitably will be colored by individual reactions to unabashed frontal nudity.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Edward Crouse
    60
    Admittedly compulsive in both sex and shutterbuggery, Araki has long lived on the art-porn border, though this doc aims to show him as conversant in flowers, kitties, skies, and neorealist kids' faces as he is with bondage.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    60
    More of a sketch than a fully developed portrait.
  7. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Illuminating, if not exactly edifying.
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