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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 02 Apr 2014

Directors John Maloof and Charlie Siskel do a lot with what they have -- but they also had a lot to work with…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Apr 2014

The portrait Maloof and Siskel assemble here from the scant information available suggests that her fanatical privacy was the darkroom in which…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 Apr 2014

Vivian Maier is a great Chicago story…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 31 Mar 2014

The question of whether Maier, a recluse, would have ever wanted someone like Maloof to bring her into the light is troubling, and perhaps…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 29 Mar 2014

Maier may not have been pleased that the world now knows about her, but Finding Vivian Maier persuasively argues that the world of photography…

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By Jerry Saltz (1) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 28 Mar 2014

Maloof and co-director Charlie Siskel peel back her layers, allowing us to see where her creative universe came from, how she functioned, what…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 28 Mar 2014

Completely captivating doc about the most undiscovered of real artists…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Mar 2014

Maier is a great artist who discounted adulation entirely. Her life was a masquerade; her genius, quite literally, was unexposed…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 28 Mar 2014

The resulting documentary, Finding Vivian Maier, might better have been titled Constructing Vivian Maier — not because the filmmakers came…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 27 Mar 2014

Several self-photos (not to be confused with selfies), the stills included in 'Finding Vivian Maier' are indeed electric…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 27 Mar 2014

John Maloof’s documentary has an opening both apt and witty: Talking heads, one after the other, struck dumb by the mystery at hand…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Mar 2014

What we find out about Maier, revealed in self-portraits as a striking woman with a singular sense of self, is fascinating…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Mar 2014

Some may find Finding Vivian Maier invasive, since Maloof and co-director Charlie Siskel delved into its namesake’s past after her death,…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 27 Mar 2014

The film, which [Mr…

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By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Mar 2014

This is less a portrait of an artist as a young woman than a psychological evaluation of a slippery subject…

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By Caryn James (352) for James on screenS (89) on 26 Mar 2014

Was she the Emily Dickinson of photos or the anti-Mary Poppins…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Mar 2014

Maier’s images are truly stunning—vivid documents of the working class that are off-the-cuff yet rigorously composed, always capturing…

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By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Mar 2014

Because her tale is so fascinating, movie-making formula is all that's needed…

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By Rob Nelson (320) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Jan 2014

[An] initially playful, ultimately haunting documentary…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Jan 2014

[A] sleekly assembled and intriguing if clearly very commercial proposition…

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