Becoming Mike Nichols

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 22, 2016
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  1. billofthevalley
    Apr 19, 2016
    8
    This was an excellent, insightful profile of Mike Nichols, providing a nice overview of his life and work. It was very interesting dealing with his "artistic process," and was mercifully free of gossip and other personal detritus. It would have been nice to hear more about some of his lesser-known achievements, like the making of Catch-22, but he was an incredibly accomplished man so thisThis was an excellent, insightful profile of Mike Nichols, providing a nice overview of his life and work. It was very interesting dealing with his "artistic process," and was mercifully free of gossip and other personal detritus. It would have been nice to hear more about some of his lesser-known achievements, like the making of Catch-22, but he was an incredibly accomplished man so this was understandable due to time constraints. Another fine doc from HBO.… Expand

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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

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  1. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Mar 9, 2016
    63
    Not only is it disappointingly short (72 minutes), but it feels choppily edited at times and O’Brien often misses the follow-up, allowing interesting discussions about directing and filmmaking by Nichols to go zipping by. The result is a film that’s packed with stories more than insight.
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  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Feb 22, 2016
    80
    Becoming Mike Nichols will make you want to go back and rewatch Stevens’s gorgeous and definitely American film, but only after you’ve paid a nice, long visit to Nichols’s greatest hits.
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  3. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    Feb 22, 2016
    80
    The documentary not only is a moving tribute to the prolific director who died at 84, it's a reminder of what's too often missing from so much of television and pop culture--conversation... real, in-depth, smart, respectful, insightful conversation.
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