For any De Palma fan or anyone interested in learning more, this doc is essential viewing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Its the famous directors regrets that are most fascinatingly explored in this honest and tell-all documentary. Anyone interested in the philosophies of artistic endeavour will find this educational, but fans of De Palma's films will be in heaven.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2022

Part appreciation, part retrospective, part off-the-cuff film school, this is a consistently engaging documentary about one of America's great directors.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 28, 2021

There's more than enough of merit here to recommend it, particularly to cineasts who live and breathe film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2021

De Palma, The Film, captures the the man's madness in glorious measure.

| Jul 14, 2021

It's such a joy to hear De Palma discuss his films that you may wish that we heard more about certain subjects.

| Apr 13, 2021

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's documentary dispenses with all but the essentials: De Palma sits in a chair and methodically works his way through his rather extraordinary career.

| Original Score: 6.6/10 | Sep 11, 2020

De Palma presents as an even-keeled man, openly reflective of his past successes and failures, or at least those films viewed as failures by critics and/or audiences.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Without any other testimony, De Palma feels like a glorified interview, with top notch archive footage, but minimal production effort. Heck, even the framing is off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2020

It gives the impression that you're scrolling through De Palma's Wikipedia entry while he casts off pithy rejoinders over your shoulder.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2019

I admire the simplicity and directness of Jake Paltrow and Noah Baumbach's documentary De Palma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2019

After watching "De Palma," I have a greater appreciation for the director's work and am eager to revisit some of his films.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 15, 2019

Pretty much anyone with an eye for great film loves Brian De Palma.

| Nov 28, 2018

Instead of focusing only on the director's patented thematic and stylistic motifs, [De Palma] calls attention to the patterns of its subject's personality.

| Aug 23, 2018

... de Palma is honest about the probability that his glory days are behind him. Still, "De Palma" makes a great case for the merits of films like "Carrie" and "Blow Out" and leaves one wishing for a de Palma retro.

| Feb 15, 2018

No one kills people with the bravura relish of De Palma. He is the Michelangelo of Murder, a man who crafts decadent, deviant works of art using viscera and celluloid in lieu of paint.

| Aug 28, 2017

The film may live as little more than a supplement on a future box set, but Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow do well enough to give a sense of the breadth De Palma's career while letting the iconoclastic director write his history in his own way.

| Aug 15, 2017

For over 100 deliriously entertaining minutes, De Palma unspools like a mixtape of the master's most arresting flourishes and set pieces. All killer, no filler.

| Aug 14, 2017

Meant to be a tribute, De Palma mostly reminds you of how many terrible movies he's made.

| Jun 20, 2017

A serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2017