American Movie

A very funny, sometimes very sad documentary.Read Full Review »

The rare documentary that combines a wildly charismatic subject with an elegant structure...not-to-be-missed.Read Full Review »

As quintessential a story of American ambition as Welles' own "Citizen Kane."Read Full Review »

Extraordinary.Read Full Review »

This thorough original is a wall-to-wall exercise in gallows humor, a movie whose full funny/sad effect doesn't hit until you reflect upon the subject and the cast of characters.Read Full Review »

As I watched American Movie, a lot of it struck me as untranscendent misery. But in hindsight it seems less hopeless.Read Full Review »

Like its subject, American Movie works entirely on its own quirky terms.Read Full Review »

A tacit auteur-to-auteur endorsement of the inalienable right to make movies--regardless of talent or sobriety or adult responsibilities--is what gives American Movie its uneasy kick.Read Full Review »

Although I don't begrudge Borchardt his year of fame, what he doesn't seem to understand about his exploitation creeps me out.Read Full Review »

Although overly long at 107 minutes, American Movie is an incisive, largely absorbing work and a far more mature effort than Smith's "American Job."Read Full Review »