Tell Me Who I Am
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 18, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TheWrapCandice FrederickOct 16, 2019
Marked by evolving degrees of miraculous vivacity, dread, despair, and ultimately hope, Tell Me Who I Am reflects a fraternal relationship equally encumbered by truth and lies but strengthened by love and an unflinching revelation in real time. It is utterly staggering. Read full review
90
Film ThreatAlan NgOct 17, 2019
Tell Me Who I Am is an incredible real-life mystery. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonOct 17, 2019
This remarkable true story is a finely crafted exercise in slow-building suspense, though it works better as a gripping mood piece than as journalistic investigation, its raw confessional style slightly compromised by niggling narrative gaps and dramatic contrivances. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 24, 2019
It’s hard to imagine a more crystalline look at the suppleness of someone’s self-identity (and the moral dilemma of someone else choosing to overwrite it) than Ed Perkins’ Tell Me Who I Am, a documentary so harrowing and horrific that it can only bear to scratch at the surface of its remarkable story. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattOct 18, 2019
But the truth, when it does come out, is devastating — to the point that it can feel invasive to watch such a profoundly private moment unfold on camera for our benefit. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyOct 18, 2019
Their tangible shared pain quickly turns an awkward performativeness into a most genuine therapy session, one that is both disarming and uplifting to observe. Read full review
70
VoxAlissa WilkinsonNov 19, 2019
Ultimately, the film is not just a wild and nearly unbelievable story; it’s a rumination on the lasting effects of sexual abuse, the complicated question of “good” lies, and the moral quandary that comes along with withholding painful information. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangOct 17, 2019
In its most rewardingly complicated moments, this absorbing, incomplete documentary reminds us that there is nothing definitive about what we think we know. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 17, 2019
Their moment of resolution at the end is very moving, but the movie also testifies that while love and forgiveness can ameliorate suffering, it can’t really wipe it all away. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonOct 15, 2019
By focusing so narrowly on the Lewis brothers’ relationship with their mother, the film inadvertently minimizes the scope of their abuse. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 18, 2019
In the documentary, the director appears to be interviewing the twins separately, but he’s really just filming them as they recite their own story. They’ve chosen their words carefully; they cry on cue; and they share just enough, while holding back an enormous amount of information. Read full review
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