Art for Everybody

Name: Art for Everybody
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 28, 2025
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Thomas Kinkade

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| Release Date: March 28, 2025 | Not Rated

Starring: Thomas Kinkade

Summary: After Thomas Kinkade's passing, his daughters uncovered a trove of unseen, dark paintings, launching a search for the true man behind the brand. It uncovers the real Thomas Kinkade.

Director: Miranda Yousef

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Alissa Wilkinson

Mar 28, 2025

Art for Everybody — which is well structured, meticulously researched and revealing, even for a Kinkade-jaded viewer like me — manages to complicate the narrative, thanks in part to sensitive interviews with family and friends, including his wife, Nanette, and their four daughters. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Mar 28, 2025

This is a thoroughly fascinating documentary about a family discovering the depth and complexity of their patriarch while coming to terms with his flaws, as well as the capitalist system of art exhibition and sale that has different tiers and gatekeepers, depending on who you are and your version of life. Read full review

Josiah Teal

May 2, 2023

So much of Art for Everybody follows a traditional rise-to-power and fall-from-grace structure. The story gives equal time to Kinkade’s adoring friends and his harshest critics while allowing his family to serve as both. Yousef never tries to immortalize or romanticize the painter but instead focuses on the person and his path to the limelight. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Apr 18, 2025

Yousef, who also edited the film, vividly dissects the artist’s complicated life with the help of strong archival and personal footage as well as candid interviews with family members, colleagues and a solid array of art-world figures. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Apr 2, 2025

Much like Penny Lane’s endlessly amusing “Listening to Kenny G,” Yousef’s illuminating doc appeals to all sides, from Kinkade’s haters to his most ardent defenders, revealing dimensions altogether absent from his enormously popular oeuvre. Read full review

The Guardian Phuong Le

Jun 9, 2025

Here is a visual portal to a hidden side of a controversial artist – one that is not for sale. Read full review

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