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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Using home movies and other footage, Kopple provides a discomfiting portrait of a family’s deep-seated dysfunction.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThere is much here of interest to aficionados of the great author as well as to those curious about the complicated relationship between sisters Mariel and the late Margaux.
- 70The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldThis heart-wrenching and deceptively conventional documentary manages the tensions in its subject and in the vérité approach in a fruitful, illuminating and surprisingly moving way.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreHemingway wins us over and, in the end, comes off as earnest in her desire to use her celebrity to help shine a light on the maladies that have shattered her family, time and again.
- The only new titbit of information for Hemingway-philes is that none of his grandchildren read his books.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfA certain Hollywood self-absorption is on display here, but the family’s depressing story merits Mariel’s vigilant defensiveness.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerThe modern-day sections with Mariel Hemingway, while detailing the redemptive promise of the title, too often come across as either indulgent time-filler or overflow with PSA-level superficiality.
- 50VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonThe narratively jumbled film...features too many scenes that amount to mere stargazing.
- 50The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayAt its best, Running From Crazy is a powerful portrait of a woman who’s wrested control of her life by understanding the patterns her relatives fell into, and consciously breaking them.
- 40Village VoiceDaphne HowlandVillage VoiceDaphne HowlandThe possible hereditary nature of suicide in general and of the seven known Hemingway suicides in particular is lazily poked at; decades of research go unmentioned and unexplored.