Where's My Roy Cohn?
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: September 20, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
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Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 19, 2019
Entertaining but highly conventional documentary. Read full review
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The GuardianJordan HoffmanFeb 1, 2019
What this by-the-numbers approach lacks in artistry it makes up for in an avalanche of facts. Read full review
58
Original-CinThom ErnstOct 3, 2019
Tyrnauer’s film doesn’t seem to trust its material enough to allow the power of the stories to unfold without a constant hammering of a B-level-journalism music soundtrack — the kind best-suited for tabloid news programs. And the film’s unwavering criticism of Cohn (however warranted it might be) reduces an otherwise gripping biographical story into a sensationalized television-ready expose. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 1, 2019
While erudite, well-researched, and all too relevant ... [the film] is an unilluminating chore to watch, even as it convincingly argues the profound extent to which its subject helped blemish the moral complexion of the modern world. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyOct 2, 2019
The biggest problem with Where’s My Roy Cohn? is the documentary’s attitude toward its subject: not that it’s critical (an uncritical approach to Cohn would be about as interesting as a daytime visit to Studio 54), but that it so thoroughly accepts his view of himself. Read full review
50
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 19, 2019
Roy Cohn was way more entertaining than the new documentary about Roy Cohn. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubCharles BramescoSep 18, 2019
To fully understand Cohn, to see how the larger-than-life force shaping the latter half of the 20th century came to mold the 21st as well, requires a more penetrating approach than Tyrnauer’s easily digested, skin-deep survey. Read full review
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