Review of Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) by John Defore for The Hollywood Reporter — 22 Apr 2018
One of the most transporting depictions of the Downtown New York scene (in a field crowded with docs, memoirs and fictions — some by artists who weren't alive at the time), Sara Driver's Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat more than does justice to its acknowledged subject, partly by refusing to divorce him from his context.
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This review of Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) was written by John Defore and published by The Hollywood Reporter on 22 Apr 2018.
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat has generally received positive reviews.
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