Tell Them Who You Are Critic Reviews

A remarkable work -- lively, painful, humorous, deeply revealing of both father and son -- that is worthy of one of Hollywood's finest directors of photography.Read the full review

A superb portrait of a father and son disguised as a docu about Haskell Wexler.Read the full review

Near the beginning of the movie, the younger Wexler admits that the film is his attempt to get closer to his father. This sense of personal mission helps make Tell Them Who You Are the richest documentary of its kind since Terry Zwigoff's "Crumb."Read the full review

What Mark does, better perhaps than either he or his father realizes, is to capture some aspects of a lifelong rivalry that involves love but not much contentment.Read the full review

Funny, touching, vital.Read the full review

What makes this movie deeply fascinating is the fight Haskell wages. As the semi-willing subject of this movie, he's determined to gain the upper hand or, at least, come out somewhat sympathetic.Read the full review

Possibly without meaning to, the younger Wexler has made a superb examination not of professional cinematography -- really, who cares? -- but of the eternal bad business between fathers and sons.Read the full review

In more ways than one, Mark Wexler gets the release he's seeking.Read the full review

Engaging and perceptive.Read the full review