My Kid Could Paint That Critic Reviews
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When others can't see what parents see, there's an inescapable ache. As much as anything, My Kid Could Paint That is about that ache.Read the full review
Amir Bar-Lev's engrossing film is as much about the stubborn ambiguities of art, truth, meaning, and relationships as it is about the authenticity of the Olmstead oeuvre.Read the full review
In the last analysis, I guess it all reduces to taste and instinct. Some paintings are good, says me, or says you, and some are bad. Some paintings could be painted by a child, some couldn't be.Read the full review
No one emerges unpunished.Read the full review
The popular human-interest story of a child prodigy becomes an engrossing meditation on truth, media exploitation and the value of art in My Kid Could Paint That.Read the full review
The film and the controversy should generate interest at the boxoffice, but it's more a story about media manipulation and parental responsibility than art.Read the full review
Mr. Bar-Lev has made an excellent documentary, but it would have been better if he had not made it at all.Read the full review
The longer it goes, the more frustrating it becomes, as Bar Lev declines to come down on one side or the other.Read the full review
