| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The documentary, made after Isherwood's death and with Bachardy's enthusiastic participation, is as much a love story as a chronicle of Bachardy's maturation into a man and an artist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2008

Despite an age difference of 30 years, their connection was immediately electric; their first kiss, the story goes, broke a window.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2008

Surprisingly, this 2007 documentary about their 34-year relationship becomes more engrossing as its focus shifts from Isherwood to Bachardy...

| Aug 1, 2008

There's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emotional relationship that lasts as long as

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2008

With delectable-looking home movies of the couple's travels in California and Europe, Chris and Don offers an intimate portrayal of a passionate, enduring association, as well as a social history of postwar life.

| Jul 24, 2008

Santi and Mascara are right to call their film A Love Story, because this is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 18, 2008

It's an extraordinary film that gay audiences will find particularly salient, no doubt, yet audiences with an affinity for the writings of Isherwood or nostalgia for the golden age of Hollywood may find it intriguing as well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2008

The subtitle of the film is 'A Love Story.' The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving.

| Jun 29, 2008

I must say, this is a pricelessly moving documentary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2008

Isherwood and Bachardy's story features cameos by a galaxy of literary and cinema stars, but few are as impressive as the protagonists, who defied the conventions of their times by living openly as a happy, well-adjusted couple.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 19, 2008

The work is a reflective hodgepodge of unnervingly 'cute' animation, reenactments, archival footage, and Bachardy's own reminiscences, spoken in the singular British accent he invented just as he invented his own unorthodox life.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 13, 2008

Chris & Don: A Love Story examines a complicated and enduring relationship that raised eyebrows even in Hollywood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2008

[A] much-celebrated documentary from the festival circuit.

| Jun 13, 2008

What could have been sordid emerges instead as fiercely funny and touching. Even the animated sequences featuring the lovers the way they imagined themselves - Chris as a horse, Don as a cat - resonate with feeling and blunt truth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Affecting and beautifully realized documentary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Though a bit too conventional to perfectly reflect the unique affair at its center, Chris & Don is likely to inspire romantics of all kinds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2008

One of the most positive, affecting portrayals of queer romance in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2008