80
A biting exploration of family dysfunction and artistic catharsis.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
75
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Absorbing but disturbing documentary.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Crumb is one of the most provocative, haunting documentaries of the last decade.
100
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Crumb is a rare and powerful documentary that completely absorbs the viewer and leaves an impression so blindingly clear that the afterimage cannot be blinked away even when the theater is far behind.
100
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Zwigoff not only presents a complex human being and the range of his art but also guides us through a profound and unsettling consideration of what it means to be an American artist. Essential viewing.
89
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Though Crumb is packed with information and telling details, the movie's objective is hardly art history or a survey of Crumb's place in the world of comics. The movie aims for broader subject matter, to discover something about the role art plays in the life of the artist, and about how the release of art may, indeed, allow the artist to function as a stable human being.
100
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.
75
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
A brilliant chronicle of the life and twisted times of a most unlikely bad boy, a skinny, four-eyed, sex-obsessed misanthrope with no weapons to fire back at the society that rejected him save one: The nerd can draw.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
One of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made.
100
San Francisco Examiner by Walter Addiego
A documentary with a keen eye, a playful sense of timing and an inquisitive soul.