Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan
| Release Date: January 19, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
86
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 4 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 18, 2018
The film is useful in part because it is so frankly argumentative. The critical appreciation of art is always advanced more effectively by partisanship than by neutrality. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJan 18, 2018
Manfred Kirchheimer’s 2006 documentary, only now being released, is an exemplary work of urban romanticism, intellectual history, and visual analysis. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJan 18, 2018
[Kirchheimer's] arguments — delivered in declarative voiceover by Dylan Baker and scored to music from Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis — have power, but what stirs the mind and the heart, here, is his photography and editing. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 18, 2018
It offers an eccentric but accessible look at American high-rise history. Read full review
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