Home Movie
Cowboy Booking International | Release Date: May 3, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Chicago ReaderJ. R. Jones
Chris Smith, codirector of the indie sleeper "American Movie," dreamed up this funny one-hour documentary, about five freaky homes and the people who live in them. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Smith delights in these offbeat personalities and their jerry-rigged accoutrements, but the real joy in the film comes from the happy interaction between the subjects and their creations. Read full review
80
New Times (L.A.)Bill Gallo
Thoroughly entertaining Home Movie carries on a grand tradition of American documentary -- seeking out the eccentrics and contrarians among us. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Smith's film is a celebration of quirkiness, eccentricity, and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out, and damn the consequences. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Suffice it to say that Chris Smith's Home Movie is the most bananas episode of ''Cribs'' ever. The film is Smith's ballad of the wacky homeowner. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneJohn Petrakis
In true Chris Smith fashion, he seems far less interested in the homes themselves than in the touching relationship between homeowner and abode. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
If one's domestic environment is a kind of autobiography, then the five households visited by this entertaining documentary reveal fascinating lives indeed. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Smith profiles five extraordinary American homes, and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame, it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The five subjects of Home Movie at least know exactly why they live where they do and as they do, and they do not require our permission or approval. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
At 60 minutes, the film never stops feeling like a guided tour, while we're wishing it was a sleepover. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
There is something reassuring in seeing free-thinking individuals express their personalities so emphatically yet invitingly in the places they live. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
A documentary mosaic of kooky Americana. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Slight and whimsical. Read full review
60
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The film is slight but sweetly inquisitive, and its participants are endlessly fascinating. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
A modest charmer. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
There's a lot of bad hair and incoherent, drug-addled remarks, but inside a minute we get the joke, and it isn't much. Read full review
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