75
Entertainment Weekly by Darren Franich
Jim & Andy is fascinating, but it lands on a weird message: Thank goodness Andy Kaufman existed so Jim Carrey could play him in a movie.
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What are critics saying?
80
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
An original, unexpectedly affecting tribute to two distinctive comic performers.
63
The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
60
As with Kaufman's own stunts, it's difficult to know what to take seriously.
80
The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman
It isn’t nearly as deep as it thinks it is, but it is marvellously entertaining.
90
Screen International by Lee Marshall
It makes for powerful and stimulating viewing whether or not a game is being played with viewers.
100
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
The result isn’t another ho-hum documentary likeness in which all the elements neatly and often flatteringly stack up. “Jim & Andy” is instead a complexly layered and textured Cubist portrait, one that’s been constructed from fragments of its two title subjects and their work.
75
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
There’s something bracing about the difficulty of reconciling this earnest middle-aged hippie with his maniacally impish younger self.
90
Jim & Andy is fleetly edited and engrossing, animated by a sense of discovery.
90
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Catnip for comedy nerds and psychoanalysts, "Jim & Andy" works as both a vibrant raising-of-the-dead for the crazed, showbiz-piercing genius that was Kaufman — there's plenty of footage from his performance-art career — and a peek into the mind of a massively talented, box office-busting comedy star at a self-doubting, turbulent time in his life