By the end, the film's own title provides the key to its shortcomings.

| Jan 7, 2021

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is just as diverse and spectacular as Ms. Guggenheim herself was.

| Aug 6, 2018

A fascinating account of an extraordinary life, defined by the process of accumulation and the unknown value of objects, which was lived amidst the great art and artists of the 20th century.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 17, 2016

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict brings some balance to Guggenheim's spectacular bio. While listing off the many men - and occasional women - Guggenheim slept with, this documentary amply demonstrates that her one true love was art.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2016

There's an essential sweetness to "Art Addict," despite its ribald tales and rich settings. Peggy Guggenheim simply loved art.

| Original Score: B | Mar 11, 2016

A brisk, neatly constructed look behind the life of the late heiress who became one of the twentieth century's most proficient wheelers and dealers at the top end of the art market, collecting art, but also artists along the way.

| Jan 5, 2016

In putting together her documentary about Peggy Guggenheim, Lisa Immordino Vreeland​ displayed the tenacity of a truffle hound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2016

As Vreeland's diligent documentary makes clear, Guggenheim was an artist of sorts, too: she created her extraordinary self.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2016

Peggy Guggenheim became an art addict, yes, but she was also a bit of a sex addict, according to those who knew her, many of them speaking kindly but frankly about her dual addiction

| Dec 22, 2015

Guggenheim is unusually frank about her life and career, and the movie helps put to rest the absurd argument that her taste was shaped by the men around her.

| Dec 21, 2015

While this is always informative, it often feels like an illustrated lecture that over-scrupulously avoids the contentious topic of Guggenheim's taste in both painting and men.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2015

Immordino Vreeland tells [Peggy Guggenheim's] story in a lively way, combining gossip, name-dropping and frothier elements with a serious appraisal of her contribution to art history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2015

A hoot from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2015

Peggy was a one-off and would be utterly astonished by the art world today paying, as it does, tens of millions for works she picked up for next to nothing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2015

"Black sheep" of the American dynasty, Guggenheim was vital to 20th century art and, aided by Vreeland's lively montages and la-de-dah experts, she is astonishingly forthcoming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2015

Intelligent and inventive, the director Lisa Immordino Vreeland refuses to be hamstrung by chronology and instead pulls Guggenheim's rich and bohemian life apart and into big, thematic chunks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2015

This is an extraordinary story: I was on the edge of my seat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2015

This is another biographical documentary that fails to escape the meat-and-potatoes PBS style of film-making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2015

It is a unique story, and brilliantly shown.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2015

Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland rams this otherwise fairly conventional documentary with glamour and sadness meaning, content-wise, there is never a dull moment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2015