Despite its shortcomings, Salinger is not only interesting, but enlightening for those unfamiliar with this voice of a generation.

| Nov 27, 2019

Beyond its disturbing aspersions cast on mental illness, the film tells a story that is inherently flawed by the absence of its own key player.

| Jan 30, 2019

In total, Salinger might be an excellent documentary to watch if you want to know more about author J.D. Salinger, but the only way to truly know him may be to assume that everything he wrote was autobiography.

| Nov 29, 2017

Many reviewers have made the obvious joke that Holden Caulfield would've hated Salinger because it's so phony-and he would have, and it is.

| Aug 22, 2017

Salinger would scoff at it.

| Original Score: D | Apr 8, 2014

For those captivated by Salinger's writing, this intelligent and often invigorating film provides fine insight into his world.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2014

An emotionally stirring and affecting work, albeit a flawed one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2014

Salinger triumphs, though, as an absorbing portrait of a singular man of mystery.

| Original Score: A | Jan 28, 2014

Too bad that Salinger offers no real insight into the elusive writer and is fueled almost entirely by trivial anecdotes.

| Jan 21, 2014

The movie has a shallow, paparazzo literalism. It just wants to catch the legendarily reclusive Salinger getting into a Jeep.

| Jan 6, 2014

a work that Holden Caufield would describe as a phony piece of crap.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 2, 2013

About as complete a profile as one could reasonably wish for...a must-see for anyone with even a passing interest in the issue of how art can take on an uncontrollable life of its own.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 29, 2013

An intriguing portrait of the reclusive genius. Very accessible.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 26, 2013

He hated being famous.

| Sep 26, 2013

Fatuous and infuriating, it's a shallow, superficial examination of a multi-layered, enigmatic author.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 25, 2013

Buries a few nuggets in a mountain of repetition and overstatement.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2013

Perpetuates a problem that the film fails to acknowledge: Artists' most devoted supporters frequently refuse to oblige their simple request to be left alone.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2013

Salerno's depiction is intriguing and distinctly engaging.

| Sep 23, 2013

Whether you have read "The Catcher in the Rye" before, or forgotten what you read years ago, or never picked up the book at all, this documentary may compel you to find a copy.

| Sep 23, 2013

What emerges is a portrait of an enigma.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2013