If artist R. (Robert) Crumb can dispense immediately with his resume in Terry Zwigoff's superb Crumb, we can, too. [21 Apr 1995]Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
One of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Crumb is a rare and powerful documentary that completely absorbs the viewer and leaves an impression so blindingly clear that the afterimage cannot be blinked away even when the theater is far behind.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
"How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure." Irony aside, that's how to respond to this magnificent study in ink and blood.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
It succeeds at showing how one man's psychic wounds contributed to an art that transmutes personal pain into garish visual satire.Read Full Review »
A brilliant chronicle of the life and twisted times of a most unlikely bad boy, a skinny, four-eyed, sex-obsessed misanthrope with no weapons to fire back at the society that rejected him save one: The nerd can draw.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
When it comes to unflinching, riveting looks at a compulsive artist who can't be other than who he is, nothing comes close to Crumb. [28 Apr 1995]Read Full Review »
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