Wojnarowicz
Kino Lorber | Release Date (Streaming): March 19, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
90
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Original-CinLiam LaceyMar 18, 2021
In summoning the artist and his eighties’ art-scene milieu, the film also serves as memorial to the generation of creative voices silenced by the AIDS virus. Read full review
100
The PlaylistChris BarsantiMar 18, 2021
Chris Kim’s skittering collage of a documentary Wojnarowicz doesn’t explore his career from the outside but rather works ground up through his art to present an experiential plunge into the raw tumult of the New York art scene just before and following the onset of AIDS. Read full review
100
The New York TimesGlenn KennyMar 18, 2021
[An] exemplary documentary. Read full review
90
VarietyDennis HarveyMar 19, 2021
“Wojnarowicz” is impressive as a tapestry woven near-whole from preexisting materials, amplifying its subject’s own voice in every creative form it took. Editor Dave Stanke merits kudos alongside McKim for their evocative, first-rate assembly. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 18, 2021
A stirring requiem of rage and resistance. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 25, 2021
McKim’s documentary is as jangly and urgent as its subject and his art, and it packs a melancholy wallop, using the artist’s own running commentary via cassette tape (there were two hundred hours of it) and layering it over snatches of Wojnarowicz’s Super 8 films, countless photographs, and recollections from those who were both there at the start of Wojnarowicz’s career and at the end of his life. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 18, 2021
[A] terrific and informative documentary. Read full review
83
The Film StageJoshua EnciniasMar 19, 2021
Chris McKim’s documentary is an amalgamation of everything David Wojnarowicz leaves behind to inspire rebellion beyond the grave. Read full review
83
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMar 19, 2021
Blending Wojnarowicz’s own audio journals with input from a handful of his contemporaries, Chris McKim’s startling and meticulously edited new movie captures the spirit of the artist as he was, bracing and in-your-face. Read full review
82
Paste MagazineShayna Maci WarnerMar 19, 2021
Overall, however, the viewer gets an essential introduction to Wojnarowicz—enough to foster a desire to look more deeply into his own, numerous written accounts of his life, and to examine their own upholdings of moral decency in art, sex and access to an unencumbered life. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 18, 2021
Restless and bracing, Wojnarowicz gives a notorious life its due. Even at its clunkiest, it leaves you breathless at the heights of personal expression he achieved. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMar 18, 2021
The director Chris McKim incisively intertwines a generous batch of audio interviews with Wojnarowicz’s friends, family, and associates; a rich set of archival footage to conjure his time and place; and vigorous effects to evoke his inner world. Read full review
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