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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 31 May 2018

Tony Zierra's insightful documentary Filmmaker details what surely must be the greatest Sancho Panza story in cinematic history…

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By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 31 May 2018

Filmworker seems to have a more jaundiced view of Kubrick than Vitali does…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 30 May 2018

The documentary mildly implies that his obsessive serfdom drove Vitali a bit mad, but it's a masochistic gesture that many a film geek can understand…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 30 May 2018

There's something both immensely touching and sad about Vitali as he is in this documentary…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Washington City Paper (500) on 30 May 2018

We should thank Vitali the next time we see 2001: A Space Odyssey, even if Filmworker does not bring us any closer to understanding the man…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 29 May 2018

Tony Zierra's film is a worthy and interesting one, but I admit to becoming worn down by the endless litany of unglamorous ways that protagonist…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 May 2018

Filmworker is a tribute to the unsung artisans, assistants, best boys and girl Fridays whose indelible contributions make movies not just possible,…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for Splice Today (140) on 24 May 2018

Vitali emerges as a compelling documentary subject on his own, especially as we realize that his relationship with the temperamental Kubrick…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Hammer to Nail (208) on 24 May 2018

Though imperfectly shot and assembled, the film is ultimately an engrossing tribute to a man without whom Kubrick's final quarter-century might…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 24 May 2018

Whether you're fascinated by Kubrick or the human condition this is a minor classic…

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By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 May 2018

Next time you watch a Kubruck movie, take note of the high-contrast black and white, or of how consistent the colors have remained over the…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 23 May 2018

Tony Zierra's fond and slightly unsettling film is, among other things, a reminder of the egolessness necessary for great egos to flourish…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 May 2018

Kubrick himself rarely spoke about his work – which means this is a valuable insight into Kubrick's character and filmmaking process, as…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 22 May 2018

Filmworker makes a compelling argument that the Kubrick who lives in cinematic legend may not have become the man he’s remembered for being…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 20 May 2018

Stanley Kubrick was not quite so generous a soul if one reads between the lines of the documentary Filmworker, which tells the salutary story…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 20 May 2018

Zierra's spunky and well-assembled documentary will be vital for Kubrick completists but also...as a study of a real character who applied…

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By Jonathan Dean (62) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 20 May 2018

This is a cracking yarn - his master's obsessiveness later drove Vitali to illness - and the irony is that, with all its close-up footage of…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 20 May 2018

The interviewees in Filmworker are lit unflatteringly and not always asked the most pertinent of questions…

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By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 19 May 2018

[An] edifying, occasionally troubling documentary…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 17 May 2018

Anybody with any interest in Kubrick will be diverted by Filmworker, but it remains an oddly clunky piece of work…

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