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Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
Metascore
70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    100
    One of the great portraits of artists fighting, even with murderous rage, to reach the sublime.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Michael Blowen
    100
    Reflective, haunting, hilarious documentary.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    89
    Like a car crash in slo-mo, it's a riveting, beautiful mess.
  4. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    88
    Absorbing, artfully executed.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    80
    (Herzog's) tribute to Kinski doubles as a life-affirming monument to creation in all its variety.
  7. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    80
    This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism.
  8. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    About two men who both wanted to be dominant, who both had all the answers, who were inseparably bound together in love and hate, and who created extraordinary work--while all the time each resented the other's contribution.
  9. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    Herzog soft-pedals his cinematic ingenuity in this personal documentary about his love-hate relationship with Kinski, whose performances in Herzog classics...helped both of them become towering figures on the international movie scene before Kinski's untimely death.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    75
    German director Werner Herzog's fascinating, fond and often bitchy documentary recalling the late star of his most celebrated movies.
  11. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    A documentary that is half confessional memoir.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    70
    Serves as an eloquent coda to their unforgettable creative partnership.
  13. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    61
    From the beginning of his career a fervent, epic documentarian, Herzog is a personal filmmaker as well, and My Best Fiend is certainly his most intimate and introspective film.
  14. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Hugely entertaining.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    60
    A first-person doc assembled largely from footage taken in the course of the five features they made, being madmen together.
  16. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    60
    The evidence Herzog serves up is impossible to dismiss.
  17. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    Compels questions about Kinski's bravado and artistry, and suggests that it might not always be easy to distinguish his from Herzog's.
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