Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date: September 21, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzSep 20, 2018
It’s hard to overstate the pleasures of this film or, more precisely, this encounter with its subject. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubGwen IhnatSep 25, 2018
Throughout, the documentary offers glowing praise of Fonda that falls just short of fawning. Frankly, it’s difficult not to be impressed. Seventy-eight at the time of filming, the formidable Fonda personifies courage and strength in her interviews, even as she reveals tremendous vulnerabilities. Read full review
90
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeAug 24, 2018
Hers is a lot of life to try to capture in one movie, but Jane Fonda in Five Acts certainly covers her emotional arc with thoroughness and compassion. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 22, 2018
Lacy’s impressively thorough film forces anybody willing to watch it to reconsider her, measure her life’s work and legacy against that of her iconic father and appreciate the screen legend and cultural force she has been. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comNell MinowSep 21, 2018
Fonda’s own interviews are candid and insightful. Her regrets about the way she allowed herself to be used by the North Vietnamese are sincere but practiced. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSep 20, 2018
All in all, Jane Fonda in Five Acts proves a captivating, extremely well-told and crafted, decidedly fitting tribute to a Hollywood legend, fighter and survivor who just might surprise us one day with a “sixth act.” Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAug 24, 2018
Notwithstanding the talking-head commentary of friends, colleagues and exes, this is very much a first-person story, taking its narrative cues from Fonda's self-searching 2005 autobiography. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 24, 2018
Lively, confessional, and entertaining. Read full review
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