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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe resulting collaboration is a strange beast;
- 60VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellA sibling survivor story of uncommon personal and political breadth.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanLooks great but tells us little about the subjects.
- 38New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoWhy make a documentary about these marginal historical figures? Wouldn't one about their famous dad, author of "Death in Venice," etc., be more valuable?
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe re- enactments, however fascinating they may be as history, are too crude to serve the work especially well.
- 30New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonNew Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonIt's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over, but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe only rationale for the production seems to be that the pair were gay, and therein lies the main problem with this uninspired example of queer-film-festival filler.