Framing John DeLorean
Sundance Selects | Release Date: June 7, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 20, 2019
Argott and Joyce subordinate these more pressing political questions to a mirror-box exploration of the nature of truth and the unfathomable secrets of the soul. As such it is thoughtful, sometimes ingenious, but you can’t help thinking that they missed the real story. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJun 15, 2019
By the time the credits roll, we don’t achieve a much deeper sense of who John DeLorean really was — only a better understanding of why this complicated figure continues to befuddle screenwriters. DeLorean probably would have preferred it that way. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJun 14, 2019
Directors Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott could have easily ditched the stagy narrative bits (and behind-the scenes chats with the actors) and relied entirely on the vast amount of fascinating, well-assembled archival footage that, along with recent interviews with the late DeLorean’s children, co-workers, lawyer and other observers, nimbly recount the renegade’s complex, tabloid-ready adult life. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerGary ThompsonJun 13, 2019
In Framing John DeLorean, Philadelphia-based documentarians Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce (The Art of the Steal) mix fact, drama, and speculation to draw an ambitious portrait of the fabled automaker, but within the frame, key questions remain unanswered. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNell MinowJun 7, 2019
It is true that no movie can tell the full story of a man’s life. But movies like this one can tell us something important about our own. Read full review
60
Film ThreatHunter LanierJun 7, 2019
Aside from the poorly considered inclusion of staged drama, Framing John DeLorean competently breezes through the rise and fall of the legendary car mogul. Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJun 6, 2019
Framing John DeLorean doesn’t fully answer its own central question, and leaves several others hanging as well. As frustrating as this can be in hindsight, the movie, while it’s playing, is unfailingly engrossing. Read full review
85
IGNRyan McCaffreyJun 6, 2019
Framing John DeLorean deftly tells the bigger-than-life tale of one man’s bold quest to build a timeless sports car. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 6, 2019
Framing John DeLorean is a film that delights in stretching the truth, so maybe its constant ignorance of Hamm’s work is just part of its whole meta-narrative shtick. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 5, 2019
Baldwin lets us see glimpses of a movie that might be — on cable or streaming, a mini-series of “The People Vs. O.J. Simpson” style. Baldwin gets the tall, ungainly gait down and the makeup looks like that of a vain, egotistical “winner” who’d had work done to give him that profile. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJun 5, 2019
Though Framing John DeLorean offers a more comprehensive look at a flamboyant subject's life, it doesn't entirely do justice to the tale, and the meta-movie nature of its dramatized scenes does little to help. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearJun 5, 2019
And while the arrest and trial take up the bulk of the film’s focus, no amount of famous folks mouthing lines can compare to the compelling, grainy black-and-white clips of the real-deal DeLorean getting busted by the feds. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineOleg IvanovJun 1, 2019
John DeLorean has a biography that could have been reverse engineered from a Hollywood epic about the rise and fall of an auto-industry mogul. Read full review
67
The Film StageJohn FinkMay 4, 2019
Framing John DeLorean suffers from functioning as two potentially entertaining films in one, fighting it out on screen. Read full review
60
Screen DailyAllan HunterMay 4, 2019
The film is hugely impressive in the scope of those interviewed. Read full review
50
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanMay 4, 2019
This ambitious approach is, unfortunately, more intriguing than effective. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 4, 2019
An adventurous hybrid. ... It shouldn’t work, but it does. Read full review
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