Beyond it's educational value for those unfamiliar with Kushner's work, politics, and sexuality (like myself), there's not much to grab onto here.

| Original Score: 42/100 | Sep 19, 2009

A rich and uplifting film.

| Mar 1, 2007

This is an exceedingly friendly portrait, a disarming one, too. The filmmaker invites us to reconsider the author as someone warmer and less intimidating than his body of work. On that count, Wrestling With Angels succeeds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2007

The final portrait is unquestionably entertaining, very occasionally teasing and largely adoring. Because Kushner is a devoted political commentator, his thoughts on everything from America's role in the world to the nature of Zionism are on full display.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

[Director Freida Lee] Mock's approach to Kushner is so casual and friendly that it never steps outside of his own life for a glimpse of its context.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A worthwhile but imperfect film.

| Original Score: B | Dec 8, 2006

Wrestling with Angels is personal and intimate, insightful about Kushner as well as instructive about his collection of works.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Wrestling With Angels is a canny piece of filmmaking, sure to absorb both audiences familiar with Kushner's plays and those who know little or nothing about him.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

A sentimental valentine to a man who, underneath it all, simply wants to move people with his message.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Flaws aside, Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner is still worth a look for its glimpse at one of the leading voices of 21st century American drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

While Wrestling With Angels is definitely a worthwhile experience, you'd expect it to be a more dramatic one, considering what Kushner has produced.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

This uncritical cinematic embrace doesn't do justice to a playwright who never met a Brechtian dialectic he didn't want to ponder more deeply.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2006

It's a loving film, but Kushner's own characters are more richly textured than Mock's depiction of the playwright and the divided, divisive world he's trying to fathom.

| Nov 2, 2006

The essence of the film is that [Kushner], with not a touch of evangelistic pomp, cannot conceive of life as anything other than a campaign to improve life.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2006

Wrestling With Angels paints an intimate and detailed portrait of playwright Tony Kushner, in the years since he became the most important living American dramatist.

| Oct 6, 2006

An overly adoring but still quite interesting profile of the writer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2006

Freida Lee Mock's adulatory portrait makes for pleasant viewing -- but should it? Her subject is a professional rabble-rouser, an intellect determined to provoke a sleeping world into action.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2006

Although the analysis is far from deep, Mock's film succeeds as an above-average introduction to the playwright, especially to an audience unfamiliar with his work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2006

Even if you're not a fan of his work, it's a good thing to see, and is worth a view when it gets on 온라인카지노추천 sometime in the new year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2006

Mock is good at seizing a subject and exploiting it for her own purposes. But one doesn't get the feeling that she, unlike Tony Kushner, wants to get her hands dirty.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2006