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Crumb Review

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

  • 5.0
    87

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Universal acclaim
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    If artist R. (Robert) Crumb can dispense immediately with his resume in Terry Zwigoff's superb Crumb, we can, too. [21 Apr 1995]

  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    One of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Crumb 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.

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  • 30

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    When it comes to unflinching, riveting looks at a compulsive artist who can't be other than who he is, nothing comes close to Crumb. [28 Apr 1995]

  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    The splendid new documentary Crumb, a sympathetic yet woundingly candid portrait, catches the artist with much the same skill. [26 May 1995]

  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    It succeeds at showing how one man's psychic wounds contributed to an art that transmutes personal pain into garish visual satire.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    A frank, intimate look at a phenomenal popular artist and his extraordinarily dysfunctional family, Crumb is an excellent countercultural documentary.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Crumb pulls us in with rich detail, and with what it says, or suggests, about art, drugs, psychology and the subconscious.... Like last year's "Hoop Dreams," this documentary does justice to a great subject. [08 Jun 1995]

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