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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 23 Jul 2021

It’s pure hagiography and taken as that, it’s skillfully assembled, even stylishly so at times, and Kilmer’s insights into his art skirt…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Jul 2021

More a self-portrait than a profile, Val tells the story of a Hollywood career with a candor that stops short of revelation…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Jul 2021

Val, while often tragic, is also a deeply spiritual film: a benediction of forgiveness for those that wronged him, and a mea culpa to those…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 21 Jul 2021

Directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo are armed with seemingly endless self-shot footage for Val, a moving, fascinating portrait of the actor…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2021

The Val Kilmer we meet has been in the arena, realizes he has been lucky despite the hard knocks, and has now achieved what we hope is a lasting…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Jul 2021

If you’re already a fan of Kilmer’s work, there’s clear value in watching him pal around as a young man on the brink of stardom or rehearse…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 20 Jul 2021

Despite his health problems and a career that carried as many setbacks as triumphs, Kilmer comes across as a self-deprecating, thoughtful,…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 20 Jul 2021

Thanks to Kilmer’s relentless drive to document things, Val is a remarkably intimate film and a moving one, too…

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By Stephen Garrett (65) for Observer (1,042) on 12 Jul 2021

Val doesn’t tell the whole story, but it does give a fascinating glimpse into a very human trajectory through the gauntlet of fame and fortune…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 11 Jul 2021

The film could have been an indulgent memoir, a scrapbook of a major (if stunted) leading-man career…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Jul 2021

The helmers don’t aim to be comprehensive…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 11 Jul 2021

Awkward at times and affecting at others, Val doesn’t come across as a story about acting – instead, it’s a pretty straightforward tour…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 11 Jul 2021

Directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo let their subject tell his own story, resulting in a film that’s partly illuminating, sometimes self-indulgent…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Jul 2021

What makes Val a good and heartfelt movie, rather than just some glorified movie-star-as-trashed-parody-of-himself piece of reality-show exploitation,…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Jul 2021

Scott and Poo have seized on one substantive idea in their portraiture of a singular personality reduced to a caricature of himself by posterity…

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