A delight in that we're able to spend time with as rare a creature as Elaine Stritch, but the film's human elements elevate it to greater heights.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 3, 2019

In the same way that disabled and older people shouldn't be called "inspiring" just for living their lives... the film shows us that the effects of aging for [Elaine] Stritch aren't tragic but just inconveniences and obstacles for her to work around.

| Mar 13, 2019

What becomes a legend most? In Elaine Stritch's case, it's this riveting, unvarnished documentary portrait of the lioness in winter.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 29, 2017

Ultimately, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me makes you root for her even when you've had your fill of her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2017

There's something indomitable about her will to perform, and insecurity has been part of her experience for decades, it's clear.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2015

Chiemi Karasawa deserves all the credit in the world for the intimate and hilarious portrait that is Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a sparkling cocktail of music and memoir. On the other hand, she didn't exactly have to drag her subject out of her shell.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 5, 2015

For someone who made her Broadway debut 68 years ago, Elaine Stritch is still quite the firecracker.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2015

[A] feisty portrait of the musical-theater legend.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2015

As we see Stritch carry on, still performing into her eighties, battling the physical and mental ravages of time, it's obvious she was no sissy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Shoot Me is precisely as dishy, vulnerable and moving as a biographical doc ought to be.

| Jan 5, 2015

Sensationally entertaining.

| Jan 5, 2015

This film works as both a show business historical documentary and a fitting tribute to the late, great Broadway legend, Elaine Stritch.

| Original Score: B | Dec 9, 2014

Since the brassy Elaine is mostly likable, even if self-absorbed, so is the straight-forward documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 21, 2014

What might have been merely a sycophantic airbrushed view of Ms. Stritch and her marvelous talents, instead, is a fully candid, unrehearsed, intimate, three-dimensional portrait.

| Jun 25, 2014

A career centerpiece, a significant artistic contribution in its own right.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2014

"Elaine Stritch" is filled with bluster and memories, blunt outbursts and funny moments. But more importantly, it is filled with honesty.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2014

The fledgling filmmaker finds what feels like just the right ratio of glitz to guts. One comes away with the sense that Stritch wants more than anything for the show to go on, while knowing better than anyone that her final bow can't be far off.

| Mar 26, 2014

Stritch is a force of nature

| Mar 23, 2014

There's an impressive candor and depth to this documentary about the life and career of Stritch.

| Mar 21, 2014

This admiring but forthright portrait does justice to Stritch's engaging, no-nonsense personality.

| Original Score: B | Mar 19, 2014