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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 26 Sep 2018

The man is neither lionized nor condemned here. Instead, the film simply feels like a simple life simply lived…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for BuffaloVibe (83) on 26 Sep 2018

That level of intimacy coupled with Hawke's unconventional formal structure really allows Blaze to become a bona fide experience rather than…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for The Movie Cricket (81) on 26 Sep 2018

Hawke captures Blaze and Sybil's romance in gauzy golden tones, a love affair crystallized in a Terrence Malick magic-hour loop…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Sep 2018

Movies about reckless, chemically addled men rarely have the nerve to go whole hog with the bad behavior, because it makes for alienating company…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Sep 2018

Musician Charlie Sexton brings charisma and a haunted quality to Townes Van Zandt, the legendary Texas musician who was a Foley pal, drinking…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 25 Sep 2018

A gem, giving us more than just a biopic but capturing the outsider's character for better or worse…

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By Dave Segal (8) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 24 Sep 2018

Blaze does what good biopics should do: spur enough interest in the movie's subject as to make viewers explore them in greater depth…

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By Tt Stern-Enzi (212) for Cincinnati CityBeat (160) on 24 Sep 2018

Foley tells us early on that he has no interest in being a star, because they shine brightly and burn out…

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By Alci Rengifo (87) for Entertainment Voice (75) on 23 Sep 2018

With Blaze Hawke has taken one of country's underground misfits and turned him into a figure of pathos…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 Sep 2018

Chances are you've never heard of Michael David Fuller or his stage persona, Blaze Foley. But Ethan Hawke thinks you should…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 20 Sep 2018

Blaze mentions that he never wanted to be a star, rather a legend…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Sep 2018

Ethan Hawke continues scratching his artisty itch by directing and co-writing a biopic of Blaze Foley that feels as raggedy-shambling, jumbled,…

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By Noah Gittell (113) for Washington City Paper (500) on 20 Sep 2018

It's a portrait of a tragic artist who decides, consciously or not, that it's better to burn out than to fade away, and with its intimate scope,…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for The ARTery (128) on 20 Sep 2018

A richly ambivalent film about artistic expression as its own reward and the bad romance of our most destructive impulses…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Brightest Young Things (103) on 20 Sep 2018

As the film reaches its tragic final minutes, it is clear Foley is given the treatment he would want and deserve…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 19 Sep 2018

The Blaze-Townes relationship, a partnership in substance abuse as well as musical collaboration, needs more development…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 19 Sep 2018

For the length of Hawke's film, [Blaze Foley's] the center of a sauntering look at the life of a man who other musicians respected, who left…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Sep 2018

Ethan Hawke shows enormous talent as a filmmaker and proves it here, especially with a tour-de-force debut by Ben Dickey as Foley…

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By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 18 Sep 2018

While Hawke's pacing and direction consistently defy biopic conventions, the brave performances by Dickey and Shawkat give the film its identity…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Sep 2018

The movie's best window into Foley comes via his music, played expressively by Dickey, whose performance finds humor in Foley's rather sad life…

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