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05/12/07
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 21
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus: While not a particularly deep look at the man and his career, this documentary still serves as a nicely done introduction to Kushner.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: One of our greatest living playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America) is a consummate artist and indomitable political activist committed to equality and social justice. A Jewish homosexual... [More]
Director: Freida Lee Mock
Reviews for Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
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.
02/02/07
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.
01/12/07
Top Critic
[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.
12/30/06
Wrestling with Angels is personal and intimate, insightful about Kushner as well as instructive about his collection of works.
12/01/06
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.
12/01/06
A sentimental valentine to a man who, underneath it all, simply wants to move people with his message.
11/10/06
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.
11/03/06
While Wrestling With Angels is definitely a worthwhile experience, you'd expect it to be a more dramatic one, considering what Kushner has produced.
11/03/06
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.
11/02/06
Top Critic 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.
11/02/06
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.
10/26/06
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.
10/06/06
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.
10/06/06
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.
10/06/06
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 TV sometime in the new year.
10/06/06
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.
10/05/06
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