Burden does a sterling job.

| May 22, 2017

The filmmakers are concerned more with career trajectory than personal history, and though they don't sugarcoat the bouts of troubling behavior, their affection for Burden is evident.

| May 11, 2017

This engrossing documentary profile of Los Angeles artist Chris Burden, who died in 2015, focuses mainly on his notorious performance pieces.

| May 11, 2017

An epic, often funny testament to creative fearlessness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2017

This inquisitive, textured documentary pairs his drug-addled youth with the most controversial era of his career but wisely avoids hagiography by refusing to make value judgments regarding his best work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2017

The Seventies footage is electrifying. But what makes this documentary special is that it doesn't put its subject on a pedestal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2017

It is a little reticent about his private life - but a persuasive, stimulating work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2017

Careful not to deify the man, Marrinan and Dewey balance their clear love of their subject with a sobriety that elevates it beyond the usual artist-doc hagiography.

| May 5, 2017

The performance artist, sculptor and Seventies counter-cultural figure Chris Burden is the subject of this fascinating documentary that manages, somehow, to create a sympathetic portrait of an often (on this evidence anyway) unsympathetic artist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2017

The film manages to strike a good balance between hero-worship and honest criticism without ever sounding disingenuous.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2017

A consistently fascinating documentary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2017

There's clear admiration for the artist in Burden, but it's not a hagiography.

| Original Score: 8.2/10 | May 4, 2017

True, discussions of art tend to be subjective and open-ended. But these works were made to be debated with a passion that is sometimes lacking here.

| May 4, 2017

An oddly charming documentary about his interwoven, sometimes violent, life and art.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2017

Burden's change of medium ... goes underexplored. The man himself, though, is excellent company ...

| May 3, 2017

Despite (or even partly because of) that diffident air, a portrait of the artist emerges that's complex, somewhat mysterious, but ultimately quite winning.

| May 1, 2017

The film dispenses with sensationalism, engaging with Chris Burden's most notorious work on its own terms.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 30, 2017

The filmmakers keep things simple and straightforward, focusing on Burden's work and leaving it to you to see his relevance and influence today, from Jackass stunts to the nauseating "social experiments" by YouTubers like Coby Persin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2017

Even for viewers who know much more about Burden than that thing with the rifle, it's almost certain to trigger a hunger for more.

| Feb 16, 2017

Directors Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey approach his work with precisely the right mixture of skepticism and reverence.

| Apr 26, 2016