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  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 16 m
Radical Wolfe

Summary From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities, Wolfe documented everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight ...

Directed By: Richard Dewey

Written By: Michael Lewis

  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 16 m

Radical Wolfe

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities, Wolfe documented everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight ...

Directed By: Richard Dewey

Written By: Michael Lewis

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Sep 15, 2023
It’s a highly entertaining movie that manages to pack in more or less every important thing you’d want to know about Tom Wolfe.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 15, 2023
If there’s a note of reflexive nostalgia in the proceedings, that inevitably has to do not just with the man at the film’s center but with the era that produced him, a time when magazine and print journalism could take writers and make instant celebrities and hugely influential cultural figures out of them. That day is long gone, but Radical Wolfe makes a strong case that it’s well worth remembering.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 11, 2023
The film, inspired by a Michael Lewis (“Moneyball,” “The Big Short, “The Blind Side,””Liar’s Poker”) magazine article and relying much on Lewis’s take on the man, the writer and his self-created mythos, is a reminder of Wolfe’s once-giantic footprint in the culture.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 12, 2023
To judge from his film’s style, it also seems likely that Dewey just doesn’t have the patience for a subtle approach.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 25, 2023
As tributes go, the documentary is always lively. Archival clips zip by and nobody ever gets more than a sentence or two before the film cuts away, which means it never burrows in as often as you might want it to, considering the colorful, thick life on display.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 14, 2023
Though the film can’t capture Wolfe’s writing, it does a public service in passing along its subject’s wisdom.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 14, 2023
Richard Dewey’s staid, by-the-book documentary can hardly match the flair with which Wolfe lived and wrote.
By Devika Girish FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Sep 15, 2023
Duration 1 h 16 m
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Tagline RADICAL WOLFE is the first feature film to explore Tom Wolfe's life and work, a man who pioneered disruptive journalism, challenged American obsessions and overused punctuation way before it was cool. Tom didn't just document America, he dipped his pen in acid and took readers on a vivid trip through the summer of love, landing on the moon and 1980s Wall Street money-grubbing.
Website https://www.ifccenter.com/films/radical-wolfe/
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