The results are genuinely fascinating, and a worthwhile endeavour even for those who may not be familiar with the 20th century giants.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

There was real potential here to make a gripping documentary about two of the greatest American icons and the impact of their relationship, but unfortunately, the documentary falls flat quickly.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 1, 2024

Lisa Immordino Vreeland, documentarian of iconic artistic and intellectual elites (“Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel” and the must-see “Love, Cecil”), proves that less is more in her latest.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

Its a tender portrait of a pair of gay greats, and a must for fans of Tennessee, Truman, or queer history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2022

There are nuggets of trivia, such as Williams view on the film adaptations of his work, or Capotes opinion on Studio 54 (Cole Porter would have loved it); but the beauty comes from the more vulnerable moments, where we see the true toll of brilliance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2022

It's a straight-forward documentary, simply told, and an interesting watch for anyone who enjoys learning about literary world.

| Dec 8, 2021

Each created works of genius that changed American culture, and it is fascinating to hear what they have to say about their lives and their work.

| Sep 11, 2021

A fascinating documentary that manages both to fluff their posthumous egos and examine their delicate underbellies all in one film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2021

The elegance of the movie is that it's structured in such a smart way, emerging as neither a chummy fireside chat or a cartoonish war of words.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2021

On the other hand, the film's observations of each, while smart, are a little uninspiring given the subjects.

| Jul 19, 2021

An edifying exploration of two men whose work was groundbreaking when they created it and continues to be essential in American literary history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2021

To see the way their own impulses were born, formed, and reformed across the span of their tangled up existences was a rare and immediate fascination

| Jul 6, 2021

The movie primarily looks at these two prodigiously talented writers through their own words about similar subjects and, most deliciously, about what they thought about each other.

| Jul 6, 2021

Vreeland's brief, suggestive dual portrait captures both men's personas at their most exuberant and their most acidulous and their most Southern: It's a genial collage.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 2, 2021

It's diverting enough, and would provide a painless crash course for theater students and others who've just begun to learn about the central figures.

| Jul 1, 2021

Astounding in both their parallel virtues and key contrasts, the dir Vreeland emphasizes the duo's writing and icon status as influential artist/philosophers of 20th Century.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2021

Are there questions left unasked and unanswered? Sure. But this doc isn't about everything. It's about some things... some pretty wonderful things.

| Original Score: B | Jun 26, 2021

The resulting documentary is both informative and entertaining, with hardly a dull second.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2021

A fun work-revealing in a playful way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

What distinguishes it is its reliance on their own words through well-chosen clips from television interviews and selections from their letters and diaries.

| Jun 24, 2021