I think that time will tell if the old “life is unfair” perspective is a good enough explanation for airing petty grievances in a movie. This all depends on who Beba is and what she makes of her life and her art.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2023

Huntt has a distinct story and voice, though not always the filmmaking prowess to match.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 9, 2022

A poignant look at mixed and Black life in America through the eyes of an insightful millennial.

| Oct 27, 2022

The inventive surface keeps buoying you along.

| Jul 29, 2022

Messy and not very effective auto bio documentary that ultimately fails to convince us that it's a story worth telling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2022

These sorts of adroit pivots, complicating the film’s emotional trajectory throughout, lend Beba at its peak moments an air of serpentine complication, joining bits of information to create meanings that wouldn’t exist otherwise.

| Jul 21, 2022

Heartfelt and lyrical personal coming-of-age story.

| Original Score: B | Jul 19, 2022

Beba is a self-portrait made by an unforgiving artist.

| Jul 13, 2022

The friction she is able to create is admirable and as a work of cinema, there’s a lot of recommend. I hope the director got out of making Beba what she hoped to. I’m not exactly sure I know what that is but I appreciate being let into this part of it...

| Jul 6, 2022

In her debut documentary writer-director Rebeca Huntt examines the details of her Afro Latina heritage to provocative effect.

| Jul 1, 2022

This documentary could have been a collective cleansing experience, but instead it is, as she asserts from the outset, only Huntt’s story.

| Jun 28, 2022

Revealing and candid, but often over-edited and not nearly as moving or powerful as Capturing the Friedmans and The Wolfpack. What's sorely missing is an outside perspective which would've distanced the filmmaker from her subject.

| Jun 26, 2022

Turning the lens on herself in ways in which we rarely see women of color do, first-time feature filmmaker Rebecca “Beba” Huntt exhibits a vulnerability that is incredibly brave.

| Jun 24, 2022

This unconventional autobiographical documentary comes close to being self-indulgent, but director Rebeca Huntt’s ability to point out her troubling personal flaws makes it a candid and fascinating story.

| Jun 24, 2022

... resonates most powerfully — even for those unfamiliar with the specifics of her pain — during Huntt’s quietly cathartic moments of candid introspection amid the chaos around her.

| Jun 24, 2022

A virtuoso bomb-drop of a documentary.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 24, 2022

The filmmaker delves into all of who she is, including darker or more destructive aspects of her identity, pushing viewers to see Huntt’s complexity — and perhaps their own.

| Jun 24, 2022

She's documenting ebbs and flows of an identity still in progress so we can relate our own to its highs and lows. Her goal was to begin a deeper dialogue around our “innate correlation.” By never pretending to be anything but herself, she succeeds.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 23, 2022

There's no set timeline for understanding and processing trauma, and with "Beba," Huntt has bared her soul in a beautiful and complex way.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 23, 2022

We get a final sense that the experience of making it was probably more rewarding ... for the filmmaker than the experience of watching it is for us.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2022