Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect is a poignant documentary about Nathaniel's journey to make sense of his late father, influential architect Louis Kahn.

| Feb 23, 2022

Overall [Nathaniel Kahn's] attempt to find his father in his buildings, scars and all, is credible and well-paced, with neat visual rhymes that circle back to points raised earlier.

| Jun 3, 2008

What makes this movie riveting is not its subject, but the huge hole evident in the biographer's soul, a space he desperately tries to fill by speaking with those once close to his father.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Fascinating -- if somewhat overlong -- documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 5, 2005

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2004

The film becomes a conversation between the living and the dead, trying to reconcile professional genius and personal failure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2004

We are powerfully gripped by Lou's life and work, but we're never as moved by Nathaniel's quest as we clearly should be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2004

The film would have been more powerful if it had conveyed a better understanding of what made Kahn's buildings great. If a bit long, the film is always intriguing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 7, 2004

A very warm, lyrical, humorous, moving and insightful film.

| Original Score: A | Apr 24, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 20, 2004

makes its mark on the cinematic landscape as a fitting memorial-to Louis Kahn specifically, and to the artistic spirit in a more universal sense

| Original Score: B | Apr 5, 2004

Movies about acrimony between mothers and daughters are a dime a dozen. But it's difficult to find one about the tensions between fathers and sons.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 2, 2004

Kahn and cinematographer Robert Richman work miracles, capturing the majesty and beauty of Kahn's buildings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 1, 2004

As My Architect blossoms into a reunion of Kahn's human and artistic legacy, we see how changing light and passing time animate all our lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 1, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2004

The young Kahn is not a graceful filmmaker. Yet the subject matter is engrossing for anyone interested in architecture and also one of its greatest practitioners.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2004