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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAn ideal introduction to Toback's output as well as a welcome elucidation for longtime fans. Apart from those worthy functions, The Outsider is also shrewdly made, illuminating its subject in a variety of settings and, at times, subtly assuming the style of Toback's films.
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceNicholas Jarecki's The Outsider is among the great docs about moviemaking.
- James Toback seems oddly nice in Nicholas Jarecki's delicious cult-of-personality documentary The Outsider.
- 63PremierePremiereJarecki seems all too eager to buy into Toback's depiction of himself as the ultimate Hollywood outsider. Try telling that to the independent filmmakers who aren't on a first-name basis with Warren Beatty.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAs is often the case with Toback's films, even as you're shaking your head at his shameless self-indulgence, you can't help but keep on watching.
- A tragically missed opportunity to illuminate one of the more unusual cinematic talents working today.
- 25TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghToback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film.