Escapes
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: July 26, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
1
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The New York TimesManohla DargisJul 26, 2017
Mr. Fancher’s movie love and way of spinning a yarn to its near-breaking point — one detour opens onto another — dovetail nicely with the cinephilia and playfulness that characterize Mr. Almereyda’s movies. Read full review
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Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 24, 2017
A preoccupation with the totemic materiality of cinema runs through Michael Almereyda’s documentary. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAug 10, 2017
Escapes is as unconventional as its subject, demonstrating the charming things that can happen when a life in no way ordinary gets documented by a filmmaker most unusual. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 16, 2017
The result is an unconventional and layered portrait of a complicated talent. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 27, 2017
Escapes prefers to approach its star in a roundabout fashion, immediately launching into one of Fancher’s slippery and rambling monologues about his wandering days as a charmed lothario. Read full review
75
The Film StageJose SolísJul 14, 2017
Narration is juxtaposed with cleverly selected and edited shots from TV and film appearances...that give Escapes the shape of a collage or a Russian doll, depending on how Fancher is telling the story. Read full review
70
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniJul 27, 2017
When Fancher’s weathered visage finally appears, he recounts more regrets than triumphs, but in Almereyda’s affectionate biographical scrapbook, his accomplishments are small manifestations of an iconoclastic existence whose reward is a messy, cherished independence. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyJul 14, 2017
A unique, breezy pastiche that’s as nostalgic as a TV Land binge-watch, and as intimate as having one’s ear pleasurably bent by a garrulous “man of the world” at a dinner party. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAug 3, 2017
Escapes is an eccentric portrait of a not especially eccentric — or even terribly interesting — subject: Hampton Fancher. Read full review
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