David Crosby: Remember My Name
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, 93% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Refreshingly candid and disarmingly reflective, David Crosby: Remember My Name offers an absorbing look at its subject's life and career.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAmy NicholsonFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
I found this film really, really striking... I was glad that this wasn't just a hagiography.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAdam GrahamDetroit News
Throughout, Crosby is true to himself, even if that means coming to terms with being insufferable. Remember My Name is a portrait of an artist in reflection, and it's a hard, sobering look in the mirror.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMarjorie BaumgartenAustin Chronicle
A Sixties survivor who by his own account has crossed lines the rest of us have yet to think of, [David] Crosby is indeed a living legend. However, he also remains a legend in his own mind.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreScott MarksSan Diego Reader
As per usual with these celebrity biodocs, audience satisfaction is best gauged by one's appreciation for the subject matter, not the documentarian's (in this case first timer A.J. Eaton) ability to wow the crowd with innovation.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMark KennedyAssociated Press
Crosby is left to awkwardly narrate outside. It's clumsy filmmaking - either go in or cut it out. That's the problem with the overall film, too - it stands outside respectfully and just doesn't go for it.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJon BreamMinneapolis Star Tribune
Rarely have we seen such an unvarnished, unflattering and revealingly real portrait of a music star.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard CrouseRichard Crouse
Transcends the usual rock doc career retrospective to create an unflinching portrait of the man one bandmate called "insufferable."
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLiz ThomsonThe Arts Desk
An unflinching close-up, utterly absorbing and all the more affecting for its searing honesty in showing a man who's gone through the fire and is willing to show the burns.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRyan SilbersteinCinema76
Crosby isn't shy talking about his wrongs...he reflects on the ways his anger and ego damaged his relationships with former lifelong friends.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMatt CipollaThe Spool
It's about the rhythm, and like the successive knots of Crosby's music, it works best when everything on its mind invades the peripheries.
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