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By Bill Zwecker (128) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Mar 2014

This is a must-see for anyone who loves theater, acting and especially individuals like Elaine Stritch unafraid to bare their souls — so…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 07 Mar 2014

Stritch, in her trademark billowy white blouses and skinny black tights, or in bed, without makeup and without, sometimes, a lucid notion,…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

This profile of stage and screen veteran Elaine Stritch, shot during her 87th year, isn't a documentary so much as an improvised star vehicle;…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 06 Mar 2014

She’s a diva — she knows it, we know it, the director knows it — but over the years Stritch seems to have learned that the only way to…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 06 Mar 2014

She's an original straight-shooter, and the doc's not far from a bull's-eye…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Randy Cordova (352) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 06 Mar 2014

The film is nakedly candid, but Stritch is also a ham who is almost always aware of the camera…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 27 Feb 2014

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me is one of those showbiz docs that’s not exactly pleasurable but offers a penetrating glimpse — sometimes too penetrating…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 25 Feb 2014

Ever the trooper, [Stritch] grabs the audience's attention, which never wanes. There's not one diffident moment…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

Inspirational, entertaining, and absolutely awards-caliber (from first-time director Karasawa), Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me offers up an indelible…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Feb 2014

Follows the groundwork laid out by the recent Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, alternating between look-where-she's-been historical footage and…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Feb 2014

Delicious, hilarious, brutally honest up-close and riveting portrait of octogenarian Broadway/film/TV legend and still alive-wire Elaine Stritch…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Odie Henderson (402) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 21 Feb 2014

Stritch speaks honestly about her mortality. At 87, she harbors no fantasies about extended amounts of time…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 21 Feb 2014

You'd have to be inept not to get good material when you turn a camera on the irrepressible Elaine Stritch…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 20 Feb 2014

On a deeper level, Shoot Me is an unflinchingly honest examination of a woman who is aware that the end is approaching…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Jen Chaney (126) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 20 Feb 2014

Thanks to remarkable access to her subject, and a refusal to turn away during even the most personal moments, Karasawa has made something deeper…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 20 Feb 2014

Shoot Me' paints a loving but prickly and honest portrait of someone who's never been less than honest, if sometimes to a fault…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 19 Feb 2014

At 88, after nearly seven decades in show business, Ms…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 19 Feb 2014

An irresistibly entertaining documentary that captures Stritch during what she unsentimentally calls ''almost post-time…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Feb 2014

The kind of movie fans will be quoting for the rest of their lives, Shoot Me, from director-producer Chiemi Karasawa, is as much a playdate…

Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 18 Feb 2014

You can't kid a kidder, and she's a truth machine set on Play at all times…

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