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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 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

Isn't a bad place to begin if you're curious about architecture and don't know much about Louis Kahn.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2004

The finest achievement of My Architect is the way the son locates the light of his father's personality.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2004

Does Nathaniel finally find his father? If so, it's neither to excuse nor to condemn him… but to do what he was unable properly to do at his father's wake: say goodbye.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2004

My Architect contrasts personal history and public legacy to captivating effect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2004

Meeting this engaging, emotional, articulate cast of characters who surrounded Louis Kahn, the viewer can't help but enjoy his passion and folly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2004

What a sad film this, and how filled with the mystery of human life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2004

A quiet, inspiring study of the vagaries of genius, the blindness of commerce, the pain of family conflicts and the almost sublime power of great architecture or great art.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 19, 2004

Compelling, luminous, and poignant.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 15, 2004

We're in a moment of boys reconsidering their dads: Both 'Big Fish' and 'The Barbarian Invasions' invoke similar relationships. But 'My Architect,' unlike those two movies, parries rose-tinted pretensions with stronger senses of history and truth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2004

Irresistible and haunting.

| Original Score: A | Feb 12, 2004

Those buildings are remarkably photogenic, particularly the government building in Bangladesh, which is a masterpiece, an ideal mix of modernity and ancient splendor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2004

My Architect assesses the geometric precision of the structures Kahn built and the moral ambiguities of the ones he tore down. Then it sets us free to decide who he really was.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2004

One of the most moving nonfiction films in recent memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 30, 2004

Almost against reason, Nathaniel Kahn makes his compulsions work for him. His irritating ways lead to insight; his insistent need for attention ends up making the film more than it unmakes it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2004

What makes it enthralling is the younger Kahn's openness to a range of emotional responses (his own and others') to his father's life above and below board.

| Jan 22, 2004

This impeccably structured documentary is a fine introduction to Kahn's work and a consistently entertaining real-life mystery.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2004

To the son's great credit, what emerges from his patient investigation is a remarkably rich, even sympathetic, portrait of the father.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2004