If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Release Date: Sep 18, 2009
Metascore
16 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    0
    It’s like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger’s unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: S. James Snyder
    20
    That curatorial heft is sorely missing from Kalmbach’s final edit; it’s a portrait that neither feels forced nor fully formed.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    50
    Kalmbach’s laid-back approach proves more likable than revelatory.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    30
    A shoot with Fassbinder actress Irm Hermann signifies Tillmans's desire--and the desire of every high-profile German-speaking artist (hello, Fatih Akin)--to huff the fading smell of RWF's genius. Like the rest of the film, though, it does little to convince the unconverted of Tillmans's own.

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