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100An 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.
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Nicholas Jarecki's The Outsider is among the great docs about moviemaking.
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James Toback seems oddly nice in Nicholas Jarecki's delicious cult-of-personality documentary The Outsider.
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70Jarecki has produced more of a Friar's Club roast than a document, with the negative aspects of the subject made funny, and the positive inflated.
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63As is often the case with Toback's films, even as you're shaking your head at his shameless self-indulgence, you can't help but keep on watching.
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63Jarecki seems all too eager to buy into Toback's depiction of himself as the ultimate Hollywood outsider. Try telling that to the independent filmmakers who aren't on a first-name basis with Warren Beatty.
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A tragically missed opportunity to illuminate one of the more unusual cinematic talents working today.
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25Toback 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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JohnS.10amazing film , learned so much about inidie moviemaking and the die-hard spirt. great people in it reveal all.