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How to Draw a Bunny
Metascore
78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Tim Merrill
    90
    Maybe How to Draw a Bunny itself is really Ray Johnson's final testament, created with a mischievous wink from beyond the grave. After watching this extraordinary documentary, one has no doubt that such an act is well within Johnson's creative powers.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    90
    A seamless model of form and content. (My only quibble is the poor quality of the digital video, which doesn't do justice to Johnson's work.)
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    Unlike most documentaries about arty types, John Walter's wonderfully capricious, wittily edited film about Johnson seeks to make precise all the different ways in which the artist managed to remain opaque.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    80
    The opportunity to dig into the trove of Johnson's art is an ultimate reward beyond all offbeat attempts to understand the artist himself. At its best, How To Draw A Bunny amounts to a shadow history of the American avant-garde.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    80
    Absorbing documentary portrait.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    80
    An intriguing and entertaining introduction to Johnson through his varied art; the mystery surrounding his death, which may have been his final performance piece, and the reminiscences of contemporaries.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    80
    Debuting helmer Walter assembles an aptly colorful package, with stylistic integration of elements from Johnson's delightful visual art. A major plus is the skittering percussion score by bebop jazz great Max Roach.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    A fascinating exploration of the mysteries of the artist's life.
  9. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Probably the most definitive portrait of Johnson that we are likely to get.
  10. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Baker
    75
    How to Draw Bunny won the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, which must go to show how scarce noteworthy documentaries are.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    John Walter's documentary suggests that Johnson, who made no distinction between his life and his art, designed every detail of his own mysterious 1995 suicide with the same whimsical care that went into his painstakingly assembled pieces, and provides an engaging overview of Johnson's eccentric career in the process.
  12. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    50
    One's appreciation of this film depends largely on one's ability to be amused by a Dadaist prankster and interest in the Pop Art scene in the middle of the last century.
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