Tell Them Who You Are radiates dignity, the unusual warmth given off by the frustration of trying to know someone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2008

It's a remarkable documentary, thoroughly enjoyable and one of the most powerful films I've seen in quite some time.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2007

It works as a portrait of a father-son relationship that's awkward, volatile, uneven and always painfully real.

| Mar 6, 2007

In the end this is a great movie about a filmmaker. It's also a great movie about fathers and sons.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2006

A desperately sad look at two men whose determination to rebel against their heritage and succeed in their artform has rendered them unable to communicate. Compelling stuff, though.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2006

With dad calling junior's filmmaking skills into question at every turn, this is a fascinating blend of fact and friction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2006

What we really get from son Mark's unusual take is a sterling movie about fathers (especially famous fathers) and offspring.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2005

a rare film of startling sincerity

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2005

[A] tremendously moving documentary.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2005

A unique and luminous achievement.

| Oct 13, 2005

Equal parts fan mail and home video from Hell, Tell Them Who You Are is a fascinating piece of father-son psychotherapy la Hollywood.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 13, 2005

The subject is a fascinating one, and the film is worth watching just to see how impressive Wexler's career has been.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2005

More than a Hollywood profile, it becomes a filmmaker's effort to figure out how he relates, personally and professionally, to his famous father.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2005

An opportunity missed

| Aug 30, 2005

Unlike countless other bad-dad pictures, Tell Them moves gradually and elegantly toward a reconciliation that isn't too maudlin or forced.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2005

Anyone who has been either a parent or a child will understand the push-me- pull-you, love-and-hate dynamic the film captures, and the attempt at reconciliation that it represents.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2005

What emerges is not so much a career biography of the talented DP for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Coming Home and a number of John Sayles films.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2005

Not just a behind-the-scenes history chapter but an insightful father-son comedy-drama.

| Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2005

The film is an odd hybrid, sort of a family therapy session meshed with a Turner Classic Movies tribute doc, but the combination works in entertaining and poignant ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2005