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Critic Reviews
The IndependentFeb 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
What Allen v Farrow proves time and again, though, is that Allen’s alleged behaviour towards Dylan, which is at times captured on video and is repeatedly described as “intense” and “intimate” by eyewitnesses, appeared to be highly consistent with abuse. To actually get at the truth, Allen v Farrow might have benefitted from the impossible: interviews with every last family member.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 25, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Riveting and far-reaching. ... Allen v. Farrow goes beyond the headlines, to explore why it is that we're so reluctant to accept the worst about our pop culture heroes. [1-14 Mar 2021, p.9]
Feb 19, 2021IndieWireFeb 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Here’s a documentary about a writer-director who’s already been cast aside, showing both how he overcame it once and even more rigorously arguing why he, and others like him, can’t be allowed to do it again. In short, it works. After this documentary, no one should want to hear from Allen for a very, very long time.
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iDec 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Hearing the allegations directly from Dylan, Mia and other family members made them all the more shocking. But without input from Allen or those with countering evidence, this felt one-sided. Perhaps it is best to see Allen v Farrow not as a piece of hard-hitting investigative journalism, but as a space for a woman to share her pain and be heard without mitigation.
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Feb 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Seen as a family quilt sewn with cherished home movies and old photos, placed next to recently filmed shots of Farrow sequestered at the family's Connecticut retreat, the series is a devastating tragedy. ... A few production aspects of "Allen v. Farrow" are questionable. ... But you can't deny the reality of the adult Dylan Farrow's uncontrollable shuddering at the memory of her abuse.
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Feb 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Allen v. Farrow” is often most compelling when it focuses on the specificities of the testimony it has elicited — something HBO’s Michael Jackson documentary “Leaving Neverland” also did with chilling results. ... The segments featuring critics talking about Allen’s professional obsession with young women in sexual relationships with older men raise more questions than they answer. ... But these are cavils about what is a compassionate portrait of a woman, once a girl, who we only thought we knew.
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Feb 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The breadth of what the series tackles makes it much more compelling and thought-provoking than it would have been as a strict rehash of the Farrow-Allen split. On that more basic level, the doc does a solid job of recontextualizing our understanding of the details surrounding that breakup, as well as Dylan’s relationship with Allen.
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Feb 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
What “Allen v. Farrow” does most effectively is illustrate how what happened – or didn’t happen – can make us examine our own preconceived notions. As with the HBO documentary, “Leaving Neverland,” which explored allegations of sexual abuse leveled against the late Michael Jackson, “Allen v Farrow” makes you think about who you believe, what you believe, and why.
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Feb 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Much of “Allen v. Farrow” serves as an extensive refresher course of a stunning series of events that played out in very public fashion. ... Dylan comes across as someone who is still feeling the after-effects of her childhood trauma and always will — but refuses to let that define her. She’s warm and smart and brave and strong, and we feel such hope for her to have a lovely and complete life with her family.
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Movie NationFeb 18, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Bloated or streamlined, unbalanced or “She said, he said,” and even with a “Let culture off the hook” equivocated ending, “Allen v. Farrow” still manages to do what Connecticut and New York justice didn’t. The provable lies we hear Allen tell, the evidence that we either never heard or don’t remember reading about, leave no doubt.
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Feb 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The most compelling aspect of the series is the hard light it shines on the cost of betrayal and infidelity, particularly to children like those in Mia’s family, who watch in pain and anger as the man they looked on as a father figure has his barely concealed fling with Soon-Yi, whom he would later marry.
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The TimesMar 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The problem with this series, compellingly presented though it was, with Farrow’s son Ronan giving damning evidence against his former quasi “stepfather” and a family friend saying she saw Allen applying sunscreen to Dylan’s buttocks in an inappropriate way, is that it was totally one-sided.
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The GuardianFeb 18, 2021
Season 1 Review:
In an effort to touch on everything, some sub-topics (separating the art from the artist for Woody fans, the scuttled release of his latest film A Rainy Day in New York) get addressed so glancingly, they’d be best omitted. But however overinflated, the series has a lucid sense of its central image: that of a family ripped in half, with the kids left to choose sides.
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Feb 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s a harrowing watch. But there’s a difference between criticizing the survivor and criticizing the project constructed around her — which is important to note, because Dick and Ziering have made choices that don’t always work and built arguments that aren’t as convincing as Dylan’s own words.
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Feb 16, 2021
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If a punishing watch, it is a valuable thing to have as a part of the cultural record, twice over: It allows, at expansive length, Dylan to meaningfully be heard, and not solely about the worst thing that ever happened to her. ... This work is imperfect. One senses in the voices of cultural commentators employed by Dick and Ziering a desire to place a new spin on questions of “separating the art from the artist” and of perceived great men escaping culpability. The series is neither equipped to answer these, nor, at its best, about them.
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Feb 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Dylan’s motives are impossible to fault: She tells the filmmakers that she wants to share her experiences again so that others who have endured what she has feel less alone. She deserves to get to do that, and if more exposure brings catharsis, then so be it. But the paradox is that in portraying events so selectively, Allen v. Farrow leaves too much room for yet another public wrangling.
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The TelegraphMar 15, 2021
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