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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comApr 5, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Over six hours, Burns, Novick, and regular writer Geoffrey C. Ward (a winner of five Emmys for Burns projects) don’t just offer a chronological biography of Hemingway, they dig into his strengths and weaknesses as a writer and human being. They are unafraid of tackling his abusive side and claims of misogyny and racism, resulting in as three-dimensional a portrait of a twentieth century icon as I’ve seen in a very long time.
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Apr 5, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Hemingway” is an engaging and beautifully constructed character study and proof that whatever Burns chooses to cover as a filmmaker will more than likely become the definitive documentary on that specific topic. In Hemingway’s case, it’s a story that is a lot more sensitive than one could’ve imagined.
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Apr 2, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This is a must-watch experience for devotees who have devoured such classics as “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “The Sun Also Rises,” and it’s essential viewing for those only passingly familiar with Hemingway as a pop culture figure who might be motivated to sample his works after watching the series.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 25, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Hemingway never shirks from the writer's dark side--considering his ultimate fate, echoing his own father's suicide, how could it?--but the film also makes a strong and moving case for his enduring masterworks and their insight into human nature.
[29 Mar - 11 Apr 2021, p.8]
Apr 1, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Hemingway seems to come down a certain way on whether his moral failings overshadow the beauty and exemplary quality of short stories like “The Snows Of Kilimanjaro” and novels such as The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell To Arms, but Burns and Novick also leave space for viewers to make their own decisions.
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Apr 5, 2021
Season 1 Review:
PBS' Hemingway delivers the Ernest Hemingway people know, the Ernest Hemingway people think they know and the Ernest Hemingway captured in his private correspondence, in the recollections of others less invested in his hagiography, and in close literary analysis of his best and worst work. That's a lot of Hemingway. So is Hemingway too long? Yes. Does Hemingway have enough rewards to justify its length? Also yes.
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IndieWireApr 5, 2021
The PlaylistApr 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
As we work to reconfigure our understanding of national literature and question the inclusion of numerous authors, one can’t help but wonder where Hemingway fits in, if he does at all. “Hemingway” presents a comprehensive view of the author, but still never addresses the question of why we should still read him in the first place.
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