Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): November 17, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 16, 2017
The result isn’t another ho-hum documentary likeness in which all the elements neatly and often flatteringly stack up. “Jim & Andy” is instead a complexly layered and textured Cubist portrait, one that’s been constructed from fragments of its two title subjects and their work. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 16, 2017
Catnip for comedy nerds and psychoanalysts, "Jim & Andy" works as both a vibrant raising-of-the-dead for the crazed, showbiz-piercing genius that was Kaufman — there's plenty of footage from his performance-art career — and a peek into the mind of a massively talented, box office-busting comedy star at a self-doubting, turbulent time in his life Read full review
90
Screen DailyLee MarshallOct 19, 2017
It makes for powerful and stimulating viewing whether or not a game is being played with viewers. Read full review
90
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 19, 2017
Jim & Andy is fleetly edited and engrossing, animated by a sense of discovery. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkDec 13, 2017
[A] hilarious and occasionally moving portrait of Jim Carrey’s time making Milos Forman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on The Moon. Read full review
80
The GuardianJordan HoffmanOct 19, 2017
It isn’t nearly as deep as it thinks it is, but it is marvellously entertaining. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyOct 19, 2017
An original, unexpectedly affecting tribute to two distinctive comic performers. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 28, 2017
What Carrey adds to our understanding of the man is his simpatico sense that you either become your creation and go to your grave as someone nobody really knows, or you move on from that and find ways of expressing someone closer to who you really are, leaving that “character” or persona you’ve created for public consumption behind. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichNov 16, 2017
Jim & Andy is fascinating, but it lands on a weird message: Thank goodness Andy Kaufman existed so Jim Carrey could play him in a movie. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloNov 15, 2017
There’s something bracing about the difficulty of reconciling this earnest middle-aged hippie with his maniacally impish younger self. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNov 18, 2017
You come away from Jim & Andy wondering — not for the first time — about the cost to great artists of what they do, envious of their talent and thinking, “I’m glad that’s not me.” Read full review
67
ConsequenceBlake GobleNov 19, 2017
It’s fascinating when Smith chronicles Carrey’s stunt in tandem with gags he tested on late night shows. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNov 17, 2017
The blurring of that line between performer, reality, and fiction adds another layer to “Jim and Andy” that Kaufman would have adored. And Carrey likely does too. Read full review
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Slant MagazineGreg CwikNov 9, 2017
The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive. Read full review
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