This overlooked maverick of the Southern Gothic form gets a soup-to-nuts treatment, courtesy of PBS, in this indispensable documentary. Sit down, and read Flannery O'Connor.

| Original Score: A | Jan 21, 2022

Presenting a straightforward biography, Flannery fails to deliver any meaningful insight into the work of Flannery O'Connor.

| Mar 25, 2021

Fails to do anything beyond scratching the surface.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 24, 2021

Expresses the author's genius but goes to tortured lengths to excuse her racism.

| Nov 17, 2020

[A] fantastic documentary.

| Oct 20, 2020

The film's greatest gift is its gallery of insight from experts as diverse as Sally Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Conan O'Brien, Mary Karr, Richard Rodriguez, and Alice Walker.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2020

A technically conventional introduction to O'Connor's life rather than a full examination of her work, but as such it's a worthy tribute to a major American literary figure.

| Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2020

The talking heads, photographs and archival clips seem more suitable to the classroom than the theatre, though it's satisfying to feel the warmth of her friends, and to consider the differences between an artist and her art.

| Original Score: B-minus | Aug 27, 2020

The content is delivered with all the panache and style of a high school filmstrip from a bygone era.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 24, 2020

[A] serviceable documentary about Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor fails to come to terms with her perceived racism...but like all good literary documentaries, it makes you want to go back to the books themselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2020

Supporting video includes Southern moments beyond belief, and fans Conan O'Brien, Tommy Lee Jones, and Alice Walker who lived across the street from O'Connor, are among the interviewees.

| Aug 21, 2020

It is as inspiring as it is heart-breaking.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 11, 2020

A polished, erudite, and spiritually edifying documentary about the life and work of the Southern Catholic writer.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 8, 2020

Flannery is more about the person than the work. It reminds me a lot in tone of Brad Gooch's biography of O'Connor: playful, intimate, and appreciative of the unique challenges and joys of O'Connor's life.

| Aug 5, 2020

For those who've read O'Connor and those who haven't alike, it's a strong entry point.

| Aug 4, 2020

A thrilling look at the life of the misfit godmother of Southern Gothic literature.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 3, 2020

If there's a film or 온라인카지노추천 version of O'Connor's fiction, clips will be seen. This is distracting. The sound of a typewriter is frequently heard on the soundtrack. (O'Connor was a writer, get it?)

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 30, 2020

It might be best to think of Flannery as a conventional documentary about a very unconventional author.

| Jul 27, 2020

Flannery is, like its subject, heavily constrained by circumstance but liberated by imagination.

| Jul 23, 2020

[Though] its many virtues, Flannery isn't the perfect film biography...

| Jul 20, 2020