Jim Hemphill
Film Critic, Indiewire
“Hume was given incredible access to Feldman for around a year, and the film that resulted from it is astonishing — riotously funny, deeply troubling, and provocative in the complex questions it raises about celebrity, power, money, sex, abuse, and how they’re all intertwined…
Hume adopts a vérité approach that largely lets Feldman speak for himself — there’s no editorializing, and there doesn’t really need to be given that Feldman’s life and personality are so dramatic that a straightforward presentation of the facts is plenty wild. Whatever your preconceived notions about Feldman are, Hume’s film will expand and challenge them; the movie’s greatness lies in its ability to capture all of Feldman’s contradictions and self-destructiveness, empathizing with him without soft-pedaling his sins.
…a major piece of work and one of the great celebrity documentaries of recent years.”
