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Here is a sensitive, intelligent portrait of film director Howard Brookner.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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A bit disjointed but also vibrant and loving.
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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
It’s a sad project, a testament to lives cut short and stories half-told.
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The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
The doc's beautiful final sequence rips your heart out.
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This is no starry-eyed, heart-on-sleeve flashback but a low-key, respectful one, no less appealing for its relative reserve.
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Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
Uncle Howard begins as a slightly tentative film about a nephew’s quest to discover more about his adored film-maker uncle, Howard Brookner. But it grows into a perceptive, poignant documentary which looks at many things.
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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The movie is a deft sort of dual narrative.
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The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor
A deeply personal piece of work that offers both an introduction (or re-introduction?) to the director’s uncle — a once-burgeoning independent filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1989 at just 31 years of age — and a somber meditation on talent lost.