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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2017

Never talking down to his audience, he rather pulls them up to an intellectual level where other filmmakers fear to go…

Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Sep 2017

This is an enriching way to spend three-plus hours…

Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

Frederick Wiseman is a portraitist of ideals, of the insidious inspirations and nightmares that enable and undermine them, and, implicitly,…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Sep 2017

A film about the importance of cultural history and truth (two things deeply under siege these days), Wiseman’s epic Ex Libris might make…

Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 06 Sep 2017

Maybe a little longer and more scattered than it needs to be, with one too many scenes that just plant the camera in front of a gabbing speaker…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Sep 2017

At the same time, thanks to Wiseman's editorial selections, Ex Libris becomes a breathtaking work of erudition, attaining Godardian or Straubian…

Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 04 Sep 2017

These portraits don't have a hint of didacticism or preachiness, but Ex Libris achieves a certain emotional velocity all the same…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 04 Sep 2017

It's as if Wiseman has taken his cue from the old style librarians and has wanted to give a portrait of a community but without the inevitable…

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