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."Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
A remarkable work -- lively, painful, humorous, deeply revealing of both father and son -- that is worthy of one of Hollywood's finest directors of photography.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
What makes this movie deeply fascinating is the fight Haskell wages. As the semi-willing subject of this movie, he's determined to gain the upper hand or, at least, come out somewhat sympathetic.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Possibly without meaning to, the younger Wexler has made a superb examination not of professional cinematography -- really, who cares? -- but of the eternal bad business between fathers and sons.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
A strange, strident and finally fulfilling father-son saga.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
In more ways than one, Mark Wexler gets the release he's seeking.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Beneath its exploration of fatherly distance, this is really a portrait of why cranks make better artists than earnest nice guys.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
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.Read Full Review »
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