Greetings from Tim Buckley
Focus World | Release Date: May 3, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7
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1
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91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMay 1, 2013
Penn Badgley saunters around with an air of spooky self-possession, and he does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 2, 2013
Badgley, best known for playing "lonely boy" Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl, is a revelation. He wears his role like a second skin. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayMay 1, 2013
Algrant’s film — which he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel — is really about Tim Buckley’s son, Jeff, an equally adventurous rocker whose fame ultimately eclipsed his father’s, though he too died young. Read full review
74
Film.comWilliam GossMay 6, 2013
Two Buckleys for the price of one, but the real star here is Penn Badgley. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungApr 2, 2013
Dan Algrant’s lyrical recreation of a father-son relationship seen over time, through memory and music, has a sense of urgent originality that works even apart from its great Tim Buckley score. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMay 17, 2013
Director Dan Algrant’s conceit here is to take an actual event – a tribute concert for Tim held at a Brooklyn church in 1991, the concert that sparked Jeff’s own career – and wrap a fictionalized drama around it. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartMay 2, 2013
Director Daniel Algrant chose well with Badgley, who transcends the rather made-for-TV vibe with a decent rendition of Buckley’s haunting falsetto. Read full review
60
Village VoiceCalum MarshApr 30, 2013
The film articulates this dimension of the story, regrettably, in little more than biopic platitudes and daddy-issue clichés...But it's not all bad. Badgley delivers a nuanced performance of such ferocity he almost singlehandedly makes a conventional film seem loose and improvisatory. Read full review
58
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthApr 2, 2013
There is no doubt that Greetings From Tim Buckley is respectful, and thanks to Badgley and Rosenfield, does justice to both singers. But the film never quite connects father and son as each sharing the common bond of extraordinary talent or even similar personal woes. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisMay 2, 2013
It’s sweet, sentimental, almost inevitably touching if not especially persuasive, brushing against the thorns in each man’s life without drawing blood. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick McCarthyApr 29, 2013
Despite the counter-culture subjects at its core, Daniel Algrant's film possesses a put-upon hipness that cannot mask its disarming dorkiness. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyApr 2, 2013
The result is at once skillfully observed and a bit so-what. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 2, 2013
With many languid scenes and little narrative momentum, Algrant may have been aiming for a more ethereal father-son heartbreaker. But all that comes across is twee hipster romanticism. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearApr 30, 2013
Other than an impromptu spectacle in a downtown record store, little of the chops and charisma Buckley fils had in spades is channeled; this is still the usual Let Us Now Praise Famous Men karaoke session, wrapped up in some extra-discordantly warbled notes. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJim FarberMay 2, 2013
For all the star’s efforts, the movie itself ends up little more than an exploitation item, a sad place-holder until the real thing comes along. Read full review
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