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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Jun 2012

It is extremely difficult to be like a mountain, to create stillness in the middle of hell, is how Abramovic describes her task…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 13 Jun 2012

An elegantly observed, sleekly packaged look at an artist whose career-long balance of enigma and self-exposure culminated in a 2010 retrospective…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Jun 2012

Abramovic is a sensationally attractive narcissist and the filmmakers are clearly smitten with her, but the film goes a long way to establish…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 Jun 2012

This trip through the seminal performance artist's (often literal) body of work is sometimes too cozy, yet Abramovic might argue that objectivity…

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By Murray Whyte (6) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 13 Jun 2012

So magnetic is she that if Abramovic had chosen to be a baker, or a janitor, you could still make a film about her and it would be only slightly…

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By Eddie Harrison (272) for The List (2,018) on 13 Jun 2012

The real stars turn out to be the audience, whose natural, unguarded reactions to Abramovic give this film a transcendent, luminous and ultimately…

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By John O (1,007) on 13 Jun 2012

Powerful and Fascinating. Completely on another level…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Jun 2012

We're given an intimate seat to this wildly democratic - and creepily messianic - spectacle…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Jun 2012

The documentary seems a little structureless and unfocused at times, as Akers moves from dramatic moment to dramatic moment, not always taking…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 12 Jun 2012

How do you react when you walk through an entryway between a naked man and woman standing less than a foot a part ... and where do you put your hands…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Jun 2012

Fascinating documentary about Belgrade-born performance artist Marina Abramovic, her life and controversial performance pieces will engage…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 11 Jun 2012

Rare is the profile that captures so much oddness with so little judgment. You owe yourself a chance to be challenged…

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By Robert Koehler (477) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Jun 2012

An intelligent overview that makes a radical artist's work comprehensible to audiences with no previous awareness of her or her chosen path…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 11 Jun 2012

The filmmaker's first-rate access feels like a kind of desecration…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jun 2012

As entertaining as the documentary is, it never really measures up to the fascination and sheer force of personality of its subject…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Jun 2012

Matthew Akers' film is a personally revealing look at an artist most famous for maintaining stone-faced silence for three months…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Jun 2012

Like many other recent documentaries about artists, it is more celebratory than analytical, a kind of slick, extended promotional video for…

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By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2012

She's trying to access a shared humanity, to foster an unusual intimacy with viewers - to strip herself, often literally, to a naked and undeniable…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 Jun 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] What starts out as an informative documentary - about an intriguing Serbian performance artist who has pushed the boundaries…

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