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The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama.Full Review

Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times

Andrew Neel's fascinating but troubling documentary about his famous grandmother is more than a mere biography of an important 20th-century artist: It's also an intimate portrait of a family member that questions whether or not "great artist" and "good parent" can ever be combined in the same person.Full Review

Ken Fox
TV Guide

Much like Neel's portraits, the film is marked by audacious understatement, neither whitewashing nor sensationalizing the artist's sterling achievements and messy personal life.Full Review

Andrew Barker
Variety

It achieves the documentary format’s basic goal of illuminating history while also demonstrating, through filmmaking choices, how an artist’s style reveals his or her personality.Full Review

Matt Zoller Seitz
The New York Times

For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.Full Review

Cate McQuaid
Boston Globe
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