Kubrick by Kubrick has the effect of placing the notoriously particular and media-shy subject in the room with the eager listener/viewer.

| Jul 28, 2023

A lot of the time the documentary feels like it’s telling the audience what they already know about his career and not so much about his life.

| Apr 7, 2023

A filmmaker who granted scant few interviews, Kubrick wished for his work to speak for itself. He didn’t like being asked to explain the meaning of his films or their artistic merits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2023

“Kubrick by Kubrick,” the richly informative documentary by Gregory Monro, is a marvel of information gleaned from interviews of the master himself.

| Mar 27, 2023

It’s still such a rare treat to hear the man himself say anything at all — let alone to hear him talk about why the ideas in his work and the challenges of bringing them to the screen excited him as much as they did his fans.

| Mar 25, 2023

This gracefully crafted miniature provides inevitable fascination in shedding any degree of unfamiliar light on its subject.

| Mar 24, 2023

Worth seeing but thin.

| Mar 21, 2023

There's nothing to look at; you get the feeling this would've made for a better audiobook.

| Mar 21, 2023

“Kubrick by Kubrick” doesn’t offer much that will surprise even mild obsessives. Still, it is interesting to hear Kubrick express ideas that run counter to conventional wisdom.

| Mar 21, 2023

Hearing Kubrick speak at length about his films chips away at the idea of the director as a mysterious sage. He just sounds like an ordinary New York guy...

| Nov 29, 2022

While it may not be the definitive examination of a man who may ultimately remain an enigma, film fans should come away with their eyes a little more open than eyes wide shut.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Despite these formal setbacks, which feel born out of genre limitations more than anything else, Kubrick by Kubrick is full of worthwhile insight from one of the cinema's great artists.

| Mar 18, 2021

Film nerds will certainly bask in hearing Kubrick's own voice as he speaks on his creative process, while newbies will likely emerge with an eye to seek out Kubrick's work.

| Nov 1, 2020

Monro's Kubrick by Kubrick isn't more than a loose highlight reel of the director's career buttressed by a fairly flat interview.

| Oct 23, 2020

Backed by a wealth of archive interviews and a judicious use of clips, Gregory Monro's elegant documentary should prove irresistible to those familiar with Kubrick's films and keen to deepen their understanding of his process and filmmaking philosophy.

| Oct 22, 2020

There are a multitude of fascinating ideas that provide a platform to understand the psychology behind Kubrick's art and its relation to originality [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 21, 2020

The idea of making a documentary about the man isn't inherently flawed, but this one's approach is, lacking the insight or visuals to make it feel like more than a glorified clip show.

| Original Score: C | Oct 19, 2020

Amid the steady outpouring of Kubrickiana, the 72-minute-long "Kubrick by Kubrick" may be the least exotic, but it still gives any Kubrick believer a heady share of morsels to chew on.

| May 10, 2020

An elegant distillation.

| May 1, 2020

Kubrick by Kubrick shines because Kubrick by Monro is worth watching.

| Apr 29, 2020