"That Summer" leaves me with Beale fatigue. It would seem to appeal to "Grey Gardens" completists only.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 5, 2018

At just 80 minutes, That Summer is probably one for enthusiasts only, but existing fans will find plenty to savour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2018

Its value lies less in its resurrection of footage long thought vanished than in the way that it has been co-opted, with remarkably little overt editorial interference, into an essay on the impermanence, persistence and importance of memory.

| Jun 7, 2018

Olsson's approach to the footage mirrors that of the compulsive-hoarder subjects: keep everything, discard nothing. There's some treasure in there somewhere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2018

Essential for Grey Gardens completists, but equally very niche.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2018

A tribute to the spirited ones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2018

That Summer is a found-footage documentary which might as easily be a Tennessee Williams play. It is that weird and wonderful.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2018

Like Grey Gardens, the new film works its magic through its startling mixture of decay and splendour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2018

No one who loves Grey Gardens can do without this.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2018

At its best, "That Summer" proves an effective time capsule aimed squarely at Beale devotees, adding light and context to the saga of this endlessly baffling and singularly captivating mother-daughter duo.

| May 24, 2018

Not only does the film breathe new life into an American family surrounded by tragic mythos, but it sheds light on a cinematic treasure that forever changed documentary filmmaking.

| Original Score: A- | May 18, 2018

A prequel of sorts to a key Seventies movie that fills in a little of the back story of a couple of its most notable characters but never quite manages to totally justify its own existence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2018

Sheds further light on the Beales with footage shot before the making of "Grey Gardens."

| May 17, 2018

The makers of this rescued-footage documentary ultimately understand the power of its subjects' personalities.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2018

This footage is more incidental, less mysterious and revelatory than in Grey Gardens. But, still, it's more of the Edies, which makes it priceless.

| May 16, 2018

Once the film turns itself over to the footage of Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, this movie comes into its own as a fascinating companion piece and prequel to the Maysles Brothers film.

| May 15, 2018

Underlying the delirious unconventionality, long the privilege of the upper classes, is a palpable streak of melancholy ...

| Mar 31, 2018