| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2005

If you have any doubts about the film, just ask yourself how many other films have you seen about a renown modern philosopher.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 19, 2004

I'm not sure you'll leave the movie understanding every nuance of 'deconstruction,' but you'll have a real sense of a sophisticated thinker.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2003

Exhibits a devotion to its subject that just might drive you to his books and make you wish for tea with the man who wrote them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2003

Along the way, we absorb bits and pieces of Derrida's ideas, but the total is insufficient for the newcomer to come away with any focused understanding of Derrida and only seems to fuel the dangerous cult of hero worship.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2003

Derrida turns out to be an engaging, provocative and droll fellow before the cameras.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2003

Derrida, with his mane of white hair, piercing gaze and pipe clenched between his teeth, may be the most watchable thinker since Rodin's.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2003

The picture's charm lies in the continuing by-play between the filmmakers and their subject, with each side doing its best to deconstruct the other.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2003

We are left with a superficial snapshot that, however engaging, is insufficiently enlightening and inviting.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2003

At the very least, if you don't know anything about Derrida when you walk into the theater, you won't know much more when you leave.

| Jan 26, 2003

The film is an intriguingly superficial view of a famously deep man.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2003

Whether or not you're enlightened by any of Derrida's lectures on "the other" and "the self," Derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2003

Dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2003

An enthralling, playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man, while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that Derrida would doubtless give his blessing to.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2003

He's no easy mark, Derrida, but trying to keep up with him as he reasons his way through even the most simple questions makes for a rewarding experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes. Like a marathon runner trying to finish a race, you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 11, 2002

Dry but thought-provoking, Derrida is of interest because of the chasms of apparent contradiction it opens between the man and the philosopher.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 11, 2002

Is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it?

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 8, 2002