Finding Eleazar
M&L Banks | Release Date: September 16, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
If Mr. Shicoff ultimately comes across as a short-tempered, egotistical prima donna, the upshot of all the fuss is worth it: his Viennese performance is transcendent. Read full review
70
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
A bit scattery, but it simmers with Shicoff's intensity in lending his faith and being to the role. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Her heavy-handed montage of war, civil rights demonstrations, revolutions and KKK gatherings, intercut with Shicoff's delivery of the opera's devastating fourth-act aria, is so amateurish it very nearly succeeds in trivializing the power of his performance. Read full review
50
VarietyEddie Cockrell
Will be of keen interest to fans but plays to the unwashed as cringingly pompous. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
But compared to great documentaries about the process behind performance-"Last Dance" and "Original Cast Album: Company" spring to mind-Finding Eléazar is too choppy and fussy. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Because his self-conscious musings are given so much space, it helps to arrive at the movie already awed by Shicoff's talents so you can overlook his (and this dramatically unfocused film's) flaws. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
A promotional video masquerading as a documentary. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJorge Morales
Only true opera diehards will appreciate the backstage psychodrama, a catalog aria of the singer's multiple neuroses. Read full review
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