67
Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerShulman was around so long that he even got to weigh in on Frank Gehry's Disney Hall. He was skeptical once but came to love it.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA really terrific, intensely focused documentary on a fascinating personality.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSomething of an elegy to modernism.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyShulman photographed buildings as if they were movie stars: He found their best angles and immortalized them.
- 75St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsThis stylish film reminds us that great images endure after bodies and buildings crumble.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceEnjoyable as it is, Bricker's giddy hagiography could have used a little pushback, especially in the matter of Shulman's airy dismissal of the postmodernism that, he claimed, forced him into "retirement."
- It’s about lovely photographs of graceful buildings and those who can afford the real estate. But it does pay proper respect to a deserving artist.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNominally about the life and career of landmark Southern California architectural photographer Julius Shulman, but it's more about the buildings he photographed than it is about him. Which is probably the way he'd like it.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichVisual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself.
- This documentary tells this story reasonably well, though one might question whether director Eric Bricker's jazzy montages, collages, and rapid camera movements are appropriate to the contemplation of still photographs.