Beauty Is Embarrassing
Future You Pictures | Release Date: September 7, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesAndy WebsterSep 6, 2012
The creativity grows like kudzu in Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley's enlightening and often hilarious portrait of the Los Angeles artist Wayne White. And it yields a thousand blossoms. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSep 4, 2012
Neil Berkeley's documentary is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White's creative juices that it makes you want to go straight home and start making things. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 4, 2012
The film is studded with stirring moments of surprise. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayOct 19, 2012
Beauty Is Embarrassing stays true to White's own exacting standards: It's thoughtful, skillfully executed and pure pop pleasure, from start to finish. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSep 13, 2012
Though the movie isn't wildly original, its time-tested, artistic mantra of "just go out there and do it" is hard to resist. Read full review
75
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeSep 7, 2012
Those with a high tolerance for the ultimate four-letter word, and a love for eccentrics, will be entertained by both White and his art. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSep 8, 2012
As one observer here aptly - and non-hyperbolically - sums it up, White is "a founding father of the current state of pop art." Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 28, 2012
The result is an artist profile that doesn't feel like the standard, stuffy artist profile. Instead, Beauty is Embarrassing is an entertaining whimsy that, like White, never takes itself too seriously, doesn't overstay its welcome and never, ever underestimates the value of a chuckle. Read full review
60
Time OutAndrew SchenkerSep 5, 2012
A breezily entertaining profile of painter, puppeteer and performer Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing places the kindhearted, foulmouthed subject front and center. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 18, 2012
An amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White. Read full review
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