Let's Get Lost
Little Bear Productions | Release Date: April 21, 1989 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The GuardianAndrew Pulver
It's not exactly a documentary, more a lovingly-filmed homage, but some candid interview material allows scraps of Baker's story to emerge. Read full review
100
Time Out LondonDave Calhoun
Alongside archive material and new footage of Chet shot in his signature romantic, B&W style, Weber elicits frank reminiscences from his subject and a host of ex-lovers and friends. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Just about the only documentary that works like a novel, inviting you to read between the lines of Baker's personality until you touch the secret sadness at the heart of his beauty. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
One of the most dreamily unsettling documentaries ever made. Read full review
90
Village VoiceJim Ridley
Let's Get Lost stands as a gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Illusion and disillusionment entwine through the film like twin helixes, weaving a dreamy, free-form look at his life and legacy. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Baker's life, like his music, was as sad as it was beautiful. And Weber's movie - obsessed with Baker's image as much as with his songs - hits all the right notes. Read full review
88
Washington PostHal Hinson
At the most fundamental level, the real Chet Baker is a kind of nowhere man. He's too insubstantial for Weber to levitate him into greatness. This fact is the source of the film's dramatic tension, and Weber, to his credit, seems to have realized it. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeMark Feeney
The miraculous thing about Let's Get Lost is that Weber has managed to create something that's both impossibly stylized and unmistakably moral (not judgmental, moral). Read full review
80
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Chet Baker's face, and the extraordinary ways in which Bruce Weber has photographed it, encapsulate the story of Baker's life in a succession of ghostly, indelible images that are at once hauntingly beautiful and desperately sad. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
This is simply the finest jazz documentary ever made. Read full review
80
Total FilmStaff [Not Credited]
Plays like an elegy for the demise of the cool, thick with the small-hours allure of addiction and infatuation but smart enough to see clearly. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
What you remember most are the shots of Baker roaming around Santa Monica, Calif., in what feels like endless late-afternoon sun, or riding at night in the back of a convertible with a woman on each arm. Read full review
70
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A combination homage, living obituary and darkly moody piece of cinematic poetry. Read full review
70
The DissolveNathan Rabin
It’s a cinematic love song, pure and simple, and Weber isn’t about to let ugly facts get in the way of a parade of gorgeous images and intoxicating ideas. Read full review
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