Crumb Critic Reviews
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If artist R. (Robert) Crumb can dispense immediately with his resume in Terry Zwigoff's superb Crumb, we can, too. [21 Apr 1995]Read the full review
One of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made.Read the full review
Crumb is one of the most provocative, haunting documentaries of the last decade.Read the full review
Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.Read the full review
Crumb is a rare and powerful documentary that completely absorbs the viewer and leaves an impression so blindingly clear that the afterimage cannot be blinked away even when the theater is far behind.Read the full review
One of the most extraordinary films of the year.Read the full review
A frank, intimate look at a phenomenal popular artist and his extraordinarily dysfunctional family, Crumb is an excellent countercultural documentary.Read the full review
It succeeds at showing how one man's psychic wounds contributed to an art that transmutes personal pain into garish visual satire.Read the full review
Crumb pulls us in with rich detail, and with what it says, or suggests, about art, drugs, psychology and the subconscious.... Like last year's "Hoop Dreams," this documentary does justice to a great subject. [08 Jun 1995]Read the full review
A brilliant chronicle of the life and twisted times of a most unlikely bad boy, a skinny, four-eyed, sex-obsessed misanthrope with no weapons to fire back at the society that rejected him save one: The nerd can draw.Read the full review
