And Everything Is Going Fine Reviews
A devastating film about depression hidden and expressed, it’s almost as hypnotized by the juxtaposition of different digital sources indelibly of their time as it is by Gray’s eloquent words.
| Jan 24, 2023
Letting Gray tell his own story seems a little loosy goosy, but [Soderbergh] strikes a beautiful balance of raucous hilarity and heartfelt reflection that make for quite a raw, honest revelation of a troubled, but brilliant performer.
| Nov 19, 2020
Gray remains an incisive presence even after a car accident left him crippled in 2001. It is clear, however, that the fire just isn't in him anymore, and it's tragic watching his steady decline.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2019
[Steven] Soderbergh has returned to fashion a documentary/tribute that's loving, moving and funny.
| Dec 14, 2017
it's as painful to listen to and watch as it is astonishing that I should feel this kind of connection to someone I never met, and never will.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 4, 2012
It's all quite deeply moving, and if you remain untouched by the end credits, you have some self-examination of your own to do.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 21, 2012
allows Gray to speak of his life and its significance entirely in his own words without any intrusive talking heads or academic pontification
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2012
Soderbergh's creation doesn't fill in any blanks about Gray, and the film is not for the uninitiated, but even ardent fans will have trouble warming up to every detail.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2011
Soderbergh's editing neatly duplicates Gray's methods, showing us how memory treats the same material at different stages in a life, applying those different coats and shades of lacquer.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2011
Gray ended his life in January 2004, but director Steven Soderbergh and editor Susan Littenberg have resurrected the beloved actor and monologuist in a sort of performance collage.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2011
A tangible emotional aspect and lovely quality of And Everything is Going Fine is that of a friend trying to understand the process that led to a loved-one's suicide.
| Mar 9, 2011
This was obviously a labor of love for Soderbergh, and a fitting memorial to the artist.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2011
An absorbing, entertaining, amusing and wrenching film in which Gray tells the story of his entire life in a cleverly edited string of clips from various performances and interviews filmed over nearly 40 years.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 3, 2011
A brilliantly conceived documentary, one with uncommon respect for -- and understanding of -- its subject's life and art.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 28, 2011
It is a fitting and beguiling coda to a man who never shied from laying all his cards on the table in order to reveal all, only his 2004 suicide an unsettling mystery the truth of which no one will ever truly know the answer behind.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2011
The late Spalding Gray is the subject of this conceptual documentary, which cleverly uses the actor-performer's own biographical monologues to tell his life story. It's so well-assembled that we really feel like we get to know him in the process.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2011
This is not a standard bio-documentary. It is the artist giving us a guided tour of himself, through a mosaic of clips from his shows and 온라인카지노추천 interviews, craftily assembled by Soderbergh.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 13, 2011
You're left with as rich a sense of this man as you would in a more typical work of nonfiction. But the film's deceptive, meticulous editing also reveals that Gray's odd ambition met a cultural moment in which it could take root and thrive.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2011
It provides little insight into the actor/writer/playwright/monologuist's life that Gray does not provide himself.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2011
No stone is left unturned with the copious interviews assembled over the years interspersed with the one-man shows. This is a heart-felt documentary that needs to be seen.
| Original Score: B+ | Jan 4, 2011