Herb & Dorothy Vogel are my new heroes. They prove definitively that anyone can appreciate, love and buy art. Plus, it's clear they adore each other as much as they love their collection.

| Mar 9, 2019

The Vogels are charming subjects whose love of art lights up the screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A história da paixão incontrolável do casal Vogel por arte contemporânea é algo não só tocante, mas educativo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2010

The movie gives us an eyeful, but the unexamined irony is that the nice old couple can't sell the rest of us on why it's good.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2009

A solid and engaging documentary that shows the chasm between art and those that are removed, for various reasons, from its creation and most readily accessible exhibition to be a largely artificial construct.

| Original Score: B | Jul 28, 2009

Sasaki balances her subjects' yarns with insights into the cultural moment that shaped them and vice-versa, in particular the shift from abstract expressionism to the sparer gestures of minimalist and conceptual art.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2009

As director Megumi Sasaki's leisurely yet absorbing documentary tells it, the crusty postman and the mild librarian emerged as the Fred and Ethel Mertz of modernism, championing the early careers of such artists as Sol LeWitt and Christo.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2009

If Ripley's Believe It or Not! were still around, Herb and Dorothy Vogel would surely be in it for amassing a world-class art collection on the most ordinary of working-class salaries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Herb and Dorothy, a documentary by Megumi Sasaki, grows on you just as its subjects do.

| Jul 9, 2009

It's impossible to leave this movie believing that the Vogels are weirdos or naifs. A wealth of artists and curators testify to their strong eye, unwavering enthusiasm, and clear judgment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2009

You can't hate the film anymore than you can hate Herb and Dorothy. But this is lazy work.

| Jul 2, 2009

When was the last time you saw older protags, or a happily married couple, in American film? In this charming docu, the Vogels recall vividly their experiences in life and art over the past four decades.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 2, 2009

This easygoing movie fully captures the couple's charm and offers a unique look at the '60s and '70s New York art scene.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2009

Megumi Sasaki's convivial Herb and Dorothy is both a double-portrait of the diminutive couple, now in their 90s and 80s, and a sketch of the art, and artists, collected by these vest-pocket Rockefellers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2009

As the film progresses, we become captivated by the enchanted existence [Herb and Dorothy Vogel] have made for themselves.

| Jun 12, 2009

Herb and Dorothy certainly proves there's more than one way to be an art collector. It just doesn't probe deeply enough and ask thorny questions about the nature of collecting and the nature of art, and how they relate to one another.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Ultimately, the tale is inspiring: Why can't we all be like the Vogels and become great collectors?

| Jun 10, 2009

Briskly and engagingly cinematic. ... [Their compulsive collecting seems] at once crazy, smart, generous and enormously endearing.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 10, 2009

A fascinating, warm and delightfully charming documentary that finds just the right balance between entertaining the audience and provoking them intellectually.

| Original Score: 8.75/10 | Jun 6, 2009