Smash His Camera
Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date: July 30, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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91
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
So what happens when people forget about all those people he stalked and snapped? Will his collection still be seen as an invaluable store of late 20th-century art, or the work of a celeb-obsessed hoarder? Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Highly entertaining and skillful documentary. Read full review
80
MovielineMichelle Orange
Fittingly, there is something both thrilling and deeply unpleasant about looking at Galella's body of work -- there is casual genius in some of the captured moments, a combination of access, timing, and luck, with the subject almost always carrying most of the image's weight. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
This entertaining docu by "When We Were Kings'?" Leon Gast is more eccentric personality portrait than the in-depth scrutiny of celebrity-culture madness afforded by fellow Sundance preem "Teenage Paparazzo." Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Filmmaker Leon Gast ("When We Were Kings") paints an entertaining portrait of the still-working 79-year-old photographer. Read full review
70
Village VoiceEric Hynes
Gast's documentary portrait has a freewheeling charm that perfectly matches its subject. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
In Smash His Camera Mr. Galella emerges as a kindred soul for the curious documentarian and as a large, complicated personality in his own right, not entirely likable but admirable for his persistence and the quickness of his index finger. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
There's no denying that paparazzo Ron Galella is a New York character. What's at issue in Leon Gast's entertaining documentary is whether he's an artist or a creep. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthy
Leon Gast's profile of the photographer is not devoid of entertainment value or unhelpful in understanding the history of photojournalism, however, the movie is as ephemeral as one of Galella's snapshots of a coked out, B-list celeb exiting Studio 54 circa 1975. Read full review
40
Time OutAndrew Schenker
Galella's real crime goes conspicuously unmentioned: feeding the cult of celebrity while stoking a public appetite for empty gossip as news. Read full review
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