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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt’s likely that only Herzog would dare to, and succeed at, resolving this singular cinematic object by contemplating the fate of an abandoned basketball.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoAs nutty as you'd expect when two of our most eccentric auteurs join forces.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanEverything about this berserk, essentially static procedural is just crazy enough to be true. In any case, Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayViewers will have to decide for themselves whether My Son is a terrible, terrible movie or an uncompromising Herzog experiment in reality-bending. Here’s a suggestion: consider the track record.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIf someone else had made "My Son," it would be just another crime thriller based on a true story. But with Werner Herzog behind the camera, it's a head-scratcher from start to finish.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThe story is riddled with salutes to executive producer David Lynch and the film seems pointed hopefully in the direction of Lynch's audiences.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisWhile watching Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done you might be tempted to murmur, “My Werner, My Werner, What Have Ye Done.”
- What is unexpected, however, is that the film manages to be flat and uninteresting, despite the juicy (or, at the very least, lurid) true story from 1979 that serves as this curio's inspiration.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovBy the end of this film/experiment/prank – which, to be blunt, is pretty unsatisfying – the viewer is left to ponder what it's all about, and what its purpose may have been, which, knowing Lynch and Herzog, might well be what it was about, and what its purpose was.