The Outsider
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  • Summary: The Outsider, a feature-length documentary from first-time writer/director Nicholas Jarecki, is a film about film, specifically, the power of film to create, to move, and to endure. It follows one of America’s most obsessive and intriguing filmmakers, James Toback, writer/director of 11 movivies. Filmed over an 8-month period, The Outsider follows Toback through all phases of the making of his new film (shooting, editing, scoring, and release). The result is a surprising and highly entertaining examination of an industry that is changing and a man struggling against great odds to define a place within it. (Green Room Films) … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    An ideal introduction to Toback's output as well as a welcome elucidation for longtime fans. Apart from those worthy functions, The Outsider is also shrewdly made, illuminating its subject in a variety of settings and, at times, subtly assuming the style of Toback's films.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    70
    James Toback seems oddly nice in Nicholas Jarecki's delicious cult-of-personality documentary The Outsider.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    50
    A tragically missed opportunity to illuminate one of the more unusual cinematic talents working today.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    25
    Toback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film.

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  1. JohnS.
    10
    amazing film , learned so much about inidie moviemaking and the die-hard spirt. great people in it reveal all.

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