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Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatEric CamposFilm ThreatEric CamposPlaying like a video coffee table book displaying some of the man’s most notorious work.
- 80VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasOffers a fast, efficient and richly satisfying look at an iconoclastic artist and his groundbreaking work.
- 63New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe movie is overwhelmingly positive. It would have helped if Araki's critics had more of a say.
- 60The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisMore of a sketch than a fully developed portrait.
- 60Village VoiceEdward CrouseVillage VoiceEdward CrouseAdmittedly compulsive in both sex and shutterbuggery, Araki has long lived on the art-porn border, though this doc aims to show him as conversant in flowers, kitties, skies, and neorealist kids' faces as he is with bondage.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghViewers are left to draw their own conclusions, which inevitably will be colored by individual reactions to unabashed frontal nudity.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIlluminating, if not exactly edifying.