Seem[s] like it's pulling its punches.

| Feb 2, 2021

What [Alex Winter has] made here is a perceptive, sensitive film in which actors tell their own stories - some sad, many simply complicated.

| Jul 21, 2020

Child stardom now feels like one of the last aspirations of a decadent, no-future America. And Showbiz Kids is an invaluable primer of its risks and rewards.

| Jul 17, 2020

Framed from the hindsight of #MeToo, the stories told by Milla Jovovich and Evan Rachel Wood are particularly harrowing...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2020

Without ever delving into sensationalism... [Alex] Winter presents a calm, lucid and enlightening case for why kids should stay away from showbiz and parents shouldn't encourage them - not that the ones who are so inclined will listen, of course.

| Jul 14, 2020

Mostly it's as disturbing as the public and media interest in the child star who goes off the rails.

| Jul 14, 2020

There are few darker corners in the entertainment industry than the history of child stars, a subject explored with candor and nuance in Showbiz Kids, an excellent HBO documentary directed by Alex Winter.

| Jul 14, 2020