The Legend of Pale Male
Balcony Releasing | Release Date: November 24, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoDec 11, 2010
This is compelling stuff, but Lilien is less successful in trying to link Pale Male's story to his own. Read full review
70
VarietyRonnie ScheibNov 25, 2010
Family-friendly holiday fare. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 21, 2010
It's notable for some astounding urban wildlife footage and for the way it unintentionally reflects the giddy narcissism of the primate known as homo sapiens. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 27, 2010
You won't find a tale more true to our city than the extraordinary history of Pale Male. It's just unfortunate that Frederic Lilien's documentary is as clunky as his subject is graceful. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick SchagerNov 25, 2010
Despite spending nearly 15 years documenting this phenomenon, Lilien proves wholly uninterested in investigating his human subjects' habit of vigorously anthropomorphizing, and projecting their personal hopes, dreams, fears, and Daddy issues onto the striking hawk. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeNov 25, 2010
Remains mostly fascinating even in an amateur storyteller's hands. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 25, 2010
A sugary, aggressively anthropomorphized story of one avian interloper and a whole bunch of human obsessives. Read full review
40
Time OutEric HynesNov 25, 2010
Lilien certainly captures Pale Male's wild animal beauty in loving close-up. What his film needs, however, is distance. Read full review
38
New York PostV.A. MusettoNov 27, 2010
Lilien is an amateur filmmaker, and his movie -- which at times is more about Lilien than Pale Male -- shows it. Read full review
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