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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumZwigoff not only presents a complex human being and the range of his art but also guides us through a profound and unsettling consideration of what it means to be an American artist. Essential viewing.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOne of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanExtraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.
- 100ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliCrumb 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.
- 100San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannCrumb is one of the most provocative, haunting documentaries of the last decade.
- 100San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoA documentary with a keen eye, a playful sense of timing and an inquisitive soul.
- 89Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThough Crumb is packed with information and telling details, the movie's objective is hardly art history or a survey of Crumb's place in the world of comics. The movie aims for broader subject matter, to discover something about the role art plays in the life of the artist, and about how the release of art may, indeed, allow the artist to function as a stable human being.
- 80EmpireEmpireA biting exploration of family dysfunction and artistic catharsis.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittAbsorbing but disturbing documentary.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversA 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.