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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 08 Aug 2012

Beautiful and revelatory, Searching for Sugar Man also incorporates huge chunks of Rodriguez's music…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 08 Aug 2012

A rock documentary that goes way behind the music to tell a story that seems pure urban legend…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2012

Here's the rare music documentary in which the narrative is more interesting than the songs…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 08 Aug 2012

Bendjelloul mixes modern footage of Detroit with archival and animated images, and the shots of Rodriguez marching through his home turf help…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 08 Aug 2012

Fascinating music doc makes you believe the unbelievable…

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By Brett Michel (122) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 08 Aug 2012

Through a mix of standard talking-head interviews, animated sequences, and archival footage, Bendjelloul unlocks a mystery, painting a compelling…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Aug 2012

The information they eventually dislodge about Rodriguez suggests a secular saint, a deeply good man, whose music is the expression of a blessed…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Aug 2012

This is a real-life fairy tale with a remarkably happy ending…

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By Brad Wheeler (426) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 02 Aug 2012

A pleasing fix, Searching for Sugar Man is a lost-and-found film about pursuits – one of them abandoned, and one not…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Aug 2012

The movie is neatly structured, and Rodriguez turns out to be an interesting guy. He's worth getting to know, even if his music isn't…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Aug 2012

Through interviews and animations, this entertaining musical mystery tour. . .traces. . .an engaging story so full of colorful characters…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Aug 2012

Searching has emotional valleys and zeniths, and gasp-inducing turns, as old friends, fans and Rodriguez's grown daughters are interviewed…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 29 Jul 2012

It may fiddle with the facts, but this documentary on the hunt for a long-lost 70s music legend offers a brilliant insight into the nature of fame…

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By Bigraisin (1) on 28 Jul 2012

Do not read another word about this film; just go and see it now. You will not be disappointed. What an incredible and moving story…

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By Lasttimeisaw (246) on 28 Jul 2012

A KVIFF viewing of this demystifying documentary of a miracle would never find a copycat in the digital-era, Rodriguez…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 26 Jul 2012

Sugar Man is most interesting when it touches on the conditions that combined to draw a cult hero out of some decent music and a generously…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 26 Jul 2012

Director Malik Bendjelloul expertly paces this strange and moving film, half mystery and half meditation on art, fame, the music biz and the…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 26 Jul 2012

If it were a fiction, you wouldn't believe it at all…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 26 Jul 2012

Hopefully, it will have the benefit of giving a second chance to the music of Rodriguez, which would be fitting given his story…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 26 Jul 2012

Imagine the story of Nick Drake with a happy ending and you will have some idea what to expect from this terrific, staggeringly unlikely documentary…

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