Stan Lee
Disney+ | Release Date (Streaming): June 16, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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83
ColliderTaylor GatesJun 16, 2023
The film is lovingly put together and expertly crafted, making for a gorgeous tribute to Lee. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryJun 16, 2023
“Stan Lee” is obviously intended to be celebratory in nature, but by allowing Lee to tell the story largely in his own words, it conveys a genuine sense of what made him as big and colorful as any of the spandex-clad figures that he helped birth and spring off the page. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comNell MinowJun 16, 2023
Lee's irrepressible joi de vivre and his recollections of the wild days shifting from story-first to pictures-first and fill-in-the-story-later are as much fun as he would have hoped. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 12, 2023
Stan Lee is a fan-service documentary released by Disney+ (it drops on June 16), yet it’s very well-made, and watching it you’re confronted with a revelation: that the comic books that Lee began to create in 1961 didn’t just mark a seismic break with the comic books of the past. Read full review
70
TheWrapMartin TsaiJun 12, 2023
Gelb’s documentary gives viewers an overview of who Lee was and what made him tick, but mostly within the context of comics. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJun 23, 2023
The story being told lacks depth and insight; but it does have snap and polish, and it features a lot of astonishing art. In a way it’s a true Stan Lee experience. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraJun 20, 2023
It’s far from a complete biography, but it makes at least some effort to engage with the messier aspects of Lee’s life. Ultimately, however, this is a celebration of Lee and the cheerleading he did for comics, and that is surprisingly moving. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonJun 16, 2023
It’s disappointing, yet inevitable that the creation story of Lee gives way to the characters he helped create. Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyJun 15, 2023
As we watch Lee still encouraging ‘true believers’ well into his old age, it’s hard not to be moved. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneDavid FearJun 16, 2023
That’s the Lee you get in this near-hagiography: a peek at the man, a whole lotta the myth, and almost none of the messiness. Definitive isn’t the goal here, clearly. Printing the legend on a splash page is. It’s less a doc than a Stan Lee infomercial. Read full review
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IGNSamantha NelsonJun 22, 2023
The Disney+ documentary Stan Lee is a bland work of corporate propaganda that glosses over or outright ignores Marvel’s controversies Read full review
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