Review of Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) by Richard Brody for The New Yorker — 20 Jul 2021
The documentary is a mere encyclopedia-like info-product, which reduces its rich audiovisual archival material and its heartfelt interviews with people who knew and loved Bourdain to freeze-dried sound and image bites.
It hardly deserves the attention it’s received—and Neville’s audio stunt, far from marring the film, merely serves as a brazen form of self-promotional publicity.
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This review of Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) was written by Richard Brody and published by The New Yorker on 20 Jul 2021.
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain has generally received positive reviews.
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