A messy experience that's different than the standard tour documentary.

| Aug 10, 2021

Mistaken for Strangers feels like a depressed guy riding his famous older sibling's coattails in a vain attempt to make sense out of his life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

Brilliant when exploring the creative process and the internal struggle any artist faces to make something good despite their doubts and fears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2019

By wearing his heart on his sleeve and exhibiting an unflinching degree of honesty and passion, Mistaken for Strangers traverses the banal hero worship and reverie of an orthodox music documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2019

A road movie that plays with the conventions of a rockumentary to make a very intimate film about dealing with stardom. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 15, 2016

Whether he's playing a character or simply being his goofy self, Tom Berninger is an impishly comic figure...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2014

A unique, eccentric and highly enjoyable mix of brotherly soap opera and behind-the-scenes cringe comedy that even newcomers to The National's moody charms will enjoy.

| Jul 8, 2014

With a loose, rambling style, this documentary starts as a backstage glimpse of a rock tour before shifting into an exploration of brotherhood and finally into something much more self-reflective.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2014

It's an uneven affair, embraced as unguardedly "intimate" by some fans of the band, but in reality less moving than Anvil! The Story of Anvil, and lacking the objective insight of Terry Zwigoff's oddly comparable Crumb.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2014

We loved every minute of Tom's company and his film, right down to Halford's O Holy Night over the closing credits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2014

A beautiful movie about fame and family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2014

It's the scenes detailing Tom's efforts to bring all the material together that demonstrate what he's really capable of, and they give the film a satisfying pay-off.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2014

An amusing, and occasionally touching meditation on fame, sibling rivalry and ambition, with a sweet payoff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2014

One of the most hilarious, honest films about two brothers you're ever likely to see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2014

We learn almost nothing about the band, other than they're fairly diligent and boring ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2014

The film is helplessly, or craftily, scatter-shaped. Molecules fly everywhere: bits of concert footage, bits of serious or This is Spinal Tap -ish interviews; bits - or lots - of Tom existentially imploding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2014

An affecting, hilarious portrait of chalk/cheese sibling love, with a sweet twist: Tom thinks he's a loser, but his film is a winning one-off.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2014

It could easily have been a workaday music doc, but amid all the gigs, pit stops and sound checks emerges a funny and wry story of brothers at work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2014

Possibly the most honest and complex and competent effort of its kind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2014

A teasing essay on sibling tensions ... a backdrop for a gonzo self-portrait, a likeably self-deprecating music-biz counterpart to Louis C.K.'s 온라인카지노추천 shows.

| Apr 28, 2014