The film's elements hum into a glorious experience, with its narrative as captivating as its visualization.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 2, 2009

A grand gesture, an exercise in epic biography that explodes the intimate details of Isaiah's life and its effects on his family onto the screen.

| Aug 8, 2009

The sheer visual impact of In a Dream is breathtaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2009

Call it forgiveness or codependency, but this highly personal film speaks to all of us in the universal languages of art and love.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2009

an artistic celebration of sorts -- with the emotional pain that can come with dedication, and maybe a little madness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2009

The images and emotions of 'In A Dream' will stick with you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2009

Because Jeremiah lacks the investigatory zeal to pursue the subplots, which also include his father's madness and his older brother's drug addiction, this lovely film is more evocative than illuminating.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2009

When it works, it's well. When it doesn't, it seems unfocused and nearly loses our interest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2009

The eclectic beauty of Isaiah's complex, labor-intensive art form deserves more process-oriented dissection.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 23, 2009

Isaiah's work frequently rewards the camera's roving attention, but his self-absorption and lack of self-insight make him a sad subject even for as forgiving a study as In a Dream.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2009

A captivating, honest and thoroughly engrossing documentary with plenty of wisdom, panache and stunning visuals.

| Original Score: 9.25/10 | Apr 12, 2009

The tedious documentary In a Dream tells you much more than you could ever want to know about an ob scure Philadelphia artist called Isaiah Zagar.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 10, 2009

Even in an era of 24-hour confessional 온라인카지노추천, this look into complex emotions is gripping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2009

Bursting with vivid home movies and loving appreciations of Isaiah's artwork -- frenzied drawings and monumental mosaics in tile and mirror, many of which now beautify his Philadelphia neighborhood -- In a Dream abounds in visual pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2009

Almost too ready-made for a movie, this documentation of the lives of a troubled artist, his doting wife and his two grown sons should be dramatic and compelling, but comes across like a mockumentary of cinematic self-discovery.

| Apr 10, 2009

An unusual and compelling documentary portrait of an artist of dazzling and colorful murals.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2009

What's onscreen is vivid and compelling, but the film only seems to tell part of the story.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2009

The movie feels as if its creator is simply too close to his subject to cover all the angles; perhaps a director without blood bonds might have managed a less claustrophobic look at the clan.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Apr 8, 2009

Where most documentarians would rest on the laurels of a great subject and riveting present-tense drama, director Jeremiah Zagar has observed too much of his father's creative logic to cheat us with artless hagiography.

| Apr 8, 2009

An involving, sometimes painfully intimate piece that's as much about living with mental illness as it is about a rather remarkable artistic vision.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2009