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  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 35 m
Tell Them Who You Are

Summary Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illutrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th century classics. (ThinkFilm)

Directed By: Mark Wexler

Written By: Robert DeMaio, Mark Wexler

  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 35 m

Tell Them Who You Are

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.2
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Summary Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illutrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th century classics. (ThinkFilm)

Directed By: Mark Wexler

Written By: Robert DeMaio, Mark Wexler

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Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Near the beginning of the movie, the younger Wexler admits that the film is his attempt to get closer to his father. This sense of personal mission helps make Tell Them Who You Are the richest documentary of its kind since Terry Zwigoff's "Crumb."
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
88
What Mark does, better perhaps than either he or his father realizes, is to capture some aspects of a lifelong rivalry that involves love but not much contentment.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
The elder Wexler keeps insisting that he won't sign a release for the film unless he approves of the finished product, so he must have been pleased with its brutally honest assessment of him as a gifted filmmaker who never realized his true potential.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
75
Beneath its exploration of fatherly distance, this is really a portrait of why cranks make better artists than earnest nice guys.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Busting with clips from films Haskell Wexler shot and directed, the doc is a rare thing: an ingenuous portrait of a thoroughly Four-Square Artist, Assembled With Love And Rockets Inside A Family's Spite-Tainted Gates.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
60
He has had a notable career, and I wish there had been more specifics about it in the film.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
50
Tell Them Who You Are is indulgent by design, and the elder Wexler may be right about his son's aesthetic failings.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.2
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20% Negative
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Production Company Wexler's World
Release Date May 13, 2005
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.TellThemWhoYouAre.com/
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