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  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plagu...

Directed By: Chris McKim

  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m

Wojnarowicz

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 12 Critic Reviews
90
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plagu...

Directed By: Chris McKim

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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100
Mar 18, 2021
In summoning the artist and his eighties’ art-scene milieu, the film also serves as memorial to the generation of creative voices silenced by the AIDS virus.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
100
Mar 18, 2021
[An] exemplary documentary.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
90
Mar 18, 2021
A stirring requiem of rage and resistance.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 18, 2021
[A] terrific and informative documentary.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 19, 2021
Blending Wojnarowicz’s own audio journals with input from a handful of his contemporaries, Chris McKim’s startling and meticulously edited new movie captures the spirit of the artist as he was, bracing and in-your-face.
By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW
82
Mar 19, 2021
Overall, however, the viewer gets an essential introduction to Wojnarowicz—enough to foster a desire to look more deeply into his own, numerous written accounts of his life, and to examine their own upholdings of moral decency in art, sex and access to an unencumbered life.
By Shayna Maci Warner FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 18, 2021
The director Chris McKim incisively intertwines a generous batch of audio interviews with Wojnarowicz’s friends, family, and associates; a rich set of archival footage to conjure his time and place; and vigorous effects to evoke his inner world.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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25% Positive
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Production Company Hobo Camp Films, World of Wonder Productions
Release Date Mar 19, 2021
Duration 1 h 48 m
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Awards

International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination

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