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Comedian Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    62

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart

    What makes Comedian more than just another documentary about the comedy club comeback of a sitcom prince is that it contrasts his struggle with that of just another stand-up climber, Orny Adams.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The movie was produced by Seinfeld, and protects him. The visuals tend toward the dim, the gray and the washed-out, and you wish instead of spending a year with their store-boughts, they'd spent a month and used the leftover to hire a cinematographer.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    Gains much greater texture from the intercutting between the two performers than had it remained simply a Seinfeld promotional project.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The thrust of the movie is that even for Jerry, the quintessential scientist of stand-up, comedy is very, very hard to do. By the end, you're closer to knowing why.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dana Stevens

    Instead of prying into his soul, the filmmakers investigate his working conditions and offer a sort of backstage ethnographic study of the professional stand-up culture.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune

    A film that comes close to re-creating the funny-but-serious environment of stand-up comedy.

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