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By Matt Glasby (349) for The List (2,018) on 28 Jun 2015

Magician, like Welles' least loved works, ends up as a great bunch of moments with no clear through-line…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 17 Jun 2015

It's an adequate introduction to the man, although the Looney Tunes score sometimes rankles…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 12 Jun 2015

Magician is a brisk documentary that dismantles many Welles myths, some of them by the great man himself - as he tells the same story three…

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By Austin Trunick (219) for Under the Radar (636) on 07 Jun 2015

Magician is able to function as an instant cinema studies course on the director…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 28 May 2015

Workman has done a service in making a broadly accessible history of Welles that stands a chance of drawing younger generations of film buffs,…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 02 Apr 2015

Workman manages to hold your attention, but wanes on lasting impressions…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 Apr 2015

There are unexpected things in “Magician,” such as Puck’s presence…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Apr 2015

The movie marches so quickly past the many milestones of Welles’s career and life that it doesn’t have to time to linger — lovingly or…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 13 Mar 2015

For newcomers eager to learn more about this all-time great filmmaker, it's a good place to start…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Mar 2015

Magician is worth seeing as a kind of curated tour through the movies and through Welles’ interviews…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 10 Jan 2015

The dazzling thing in Magician is how Workman breezily covers the various periods in Welles’ career, periods worthy of entire books, from…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 31 Dec 2014

Like Welles' butchered cut of The Magnificent Ambersons, it's fascinating but leaves you hungry for more…

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By David Greenberg (3) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 19 Dec 2014

For all of its, um, workmanlike assembly, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles is textbook…

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By Greg W (4,011) on 13 Dec 2014

Great to see Orson Welles on the silver screen again? The Father of Independent Film the film calls him. And so true…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Dec 2014

Whatever its shortcomings, “Magician” accomplishes quite a bit as a corrective, and it also gives one an hour and a half in the company…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 11 Dec 2014

A completely straightforward, wholly cookie cutter primer on an iconoclast who forged new forms of art. Does that make it unnecessary? Not at all…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 10 Dec 2014

Most tales come from the inimitable mouth of the man himself, who could make ordering dinner sound like Shakespeare. He had a life to match…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 10 Dec 2014

If this documentary is swift and witty, that’s in part because it relies heavily on clips of Orson Welles talking…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Dec 2014

Workman’s study, complete with a fawning sit-down with Steven Spielberg, feels slightly awestruck: The films certainly deserve it, but you’ll…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 10 Dec 2014

If nothing else, the sweep of Workman’s cradle-to-grave approach helps place Kane in a broader context, making it one chapter in a long life…

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