| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
One of the great portraits of artists fighting, even with murderous rage, to reach the sublime.
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| 100 |
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
Reflective, haunting, hilarious documentary.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Like a car crash in slo-mo, it's a riveting, beautiful mess.
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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
Absorbing, artfully executed.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
(Herzog's) tribute to Kinski doubles as a life-affirming monument to creation in all its variety.
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| 80 |
Time
This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A documentary that is half confessional memoir.
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| 75 |
New York Post
German director Werner Herzog's fascinating, fond and often bitchy documentary recalling the late star of his most celebrated movies.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
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.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
Serves as an eloquent coda to their unforgettable creative partnership.
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| 61 |
Mr. Showbiz
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.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
A first-person doc assembled largely from footage taken in the course of the five features they made, being madmen together.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Hugely entertaining.
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| 60 |
Film.com
The evidence Herzog serves up is impossible to dismiss.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
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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