Regarding Susan Sontag
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 8, 2014
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4

Critic Reviews

  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Dec 8, 2014
    60
    Rather than tackle Ms. Sontag’s ideas or their value head-on, the director, Nancy Kates, continually deflects the discussion along other lines: Ms. Sontag as closeted bisexual, serial heartbreaker, liberal provocateur, narcissist, celebrity, camera subject, Jew, cancer survivor.

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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
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  1. tsinasky
    Dec 13, 2014
    8
    I was amazed by this woman. The documentary did a good job in showing this beautiful mind's complexity. I would want more of her dark sideI was amazed by this woman. The documentary did a good job in showing this beautiful mind's complexity. I would want more of her dark side though-I'm sure she would agree somehow- something about the reason she couldn't empathize even with people she was in love.… Full Review »
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