Fake or not, the testimony is disturbing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2022

As a silly, throwaway comedy it works fine. But a missed opportunity none-the-less...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2021

Rumor has it that Casey Affleck went broke making this film. Good, at least he won't be self-financing anymore films.

| Original Score: .5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

It is interesting because we come into that appearance with "context," giving it more gravitas than if we are just tuning in at night. But since that gravitas is most probably a put-on, it gives the whole thing a new dimension.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2019

This comic portrait of Phoenix's lost year ironically manages to raise some serious questions about fame and the media obsession with celebrity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2018

I'm Still Here is incredibly self indulgent and pointless. As a piece it is not funny, and simply put, it's just painful to watch and offers very little.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 9, 2013

As a defeated Phoenix cleanses himself in the waters of Panama at the movie's climax, ultimately you're left asking the same question you were wondering when you went in: why should I care?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2012

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Is I'm Still Here an art film? Post-verit? Social satire? A big "**** you" to Hollywood? Disturbing? Hard to sit through? Oh yeah.

| Jan 28, 2011

[A] disaster, a bratty, self-indulgent demand to be paid attention to, complete with the expectation that it will be paid attention to, because celebrity simply really is that irresistible no matter what it's doing...

| Jan 21, 2011

If what's happening in the film is honest and real, it's more spectacle than introspection. If it's all fake, only the filmmakers are laughing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Jan 15, 2011

This movie has to be seen to be simultaneously believed and disbelieved.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 21, 2010

By the end of the film, I was hoping it was a fake. If real, it would reveal a famous person who should not be celebrated.

| Original Score: B | Dec 9, 2010

An ugly and disturbing deconstruction of self-destruction and emptiness.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2010

Phoenix and Affleck aren't merely concerned with teaching everyone a lesson -- that would be cheap. They offer us an opportunity to step through the looking glass and see the human being that sits behind the famous personality.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2010

If Phoenix and Affleck are engaged in an extended performance-art piece, their message that Americas celebrity culture is empty and soul-crushing isnt anything that hasnt been said before.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 9, 2010

A clever stunt that shrewdly wrestles with issues of fame, truth and self.

| Original Score: B | Oct 7, 2010

Taken as satire, where Phoenix is the Trickster, I'm Still Here is a rare piece of provocation cinema, infiltrating the mainstream and casting an ugly light on a torrid, superficial society.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2010

Phoenix needs a hug. And a Bowflex.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2010

Casy Affleck is trying to claim that I'm Still Here is 'gonzo film-making'. And I'm right with him on that point. It DOES look like it was made by a muppet.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 29, 2010