Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
HBO | Release Date: May 4, 2015
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMay 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: The filmmaking always crackles. Every song choice, every intimate home movie, every personal moment--they have been carefully chosen from eight years of research for maximum impact. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMay 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: [Montage of Heck is] shattering, unpredictable and tells you more about Cobain than any previous film. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: Montage understands Cobain as an icon, but also as the mixed-up kid who got too famous too fast, and it seems content revealing, rather than reconciling, his contradictions. Read full review
91
NewsdayVerne GayMay 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: This is far more than a generous compilation but a two-hour fast-cut that attempts to reassemble a fractured mind from its own filings. Read full review
80
Yahoo TVKen TuckerMay 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: Anyone with an interest in music will want to see this portrait of the artist as a young man pursued by demons into the pit of heck. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanMay 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: Montage of Heck is dizzyingly impressionistic and dense with information: snippets of recordings Cobain made, interview excerpts, and images that, in some cases literally, animate his life story. Read full review
70
Kansas City StarSara SmithMay 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: Montage of Heck achieves its goal of intimacy almost too well. It’s such a tightly cropped portrait that criticizing it feels like criticizing Cobain. But it’s too long and a bit repetitive, and it keeps trying to explain its subject through his own scribblings long after his soul has been laid bare by more direct means. Read full review
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