90
Hockney is a little work of art of its own, even if it's so very nice and happy about everything.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
Time Out London by Cath Clarke
There are beautiful moments from David Hockney’s home-video stash in this thoughtful doc.
50
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.
80
Both revealing and good-natured, its a very inviting exploration of one of the 20th Centurys major artists.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Hockney is less interested in providing a conventional top-to-bottom narrative than in capturing a sense of who Hockney is and what is important to him.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
An officially sanctioned but pleasingly gush-free cinematic monograph.
58
The Film Stage by Michael Snydel
There’s no doubt Hockney deserves appreciation for his artistic influence, but this documentary is less a reflection of his singular presence than the result of haphazardly mashing together a fascinating life.
60
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It’s an engaging and garrulous film, and Hockney is now a cheerful, grandfatherly figure, and an object lesson in taking the boy out of Bradford, and not the other way around.
80
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
“Everyone is looking all the time; you just have to train yourself to look harder,” Hockney explains. This warm, affectionate, perceptive film makes looking harder look easy.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
When it deepens its intellectual focus, Hockney begins to lose coherence, with rushed sequences that cover his stage designs, his landscapes and his experiments with photography.