72
Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe finest rock doc since "Anvil: The Story of Anvil." Matt Berninger, lead singer of the National, is a 40ish indie-rock star who carries himself like a hip lawyer.
- 88New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartNot since “American Movie” has there been such an entertainingly clumsy, warts-and-all documentary about making a movie, this time courtesy of Cincinnati filmmaker Tom Berninger.
- Mistaken For Strangers is as much a film about its director as it is about The National, which may qualify it as an entirely new kind of rock doc.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeLess a rock-doc than a surprisingly affecting look at sibling dynamics in a creative family where one brother is vastly more successful than the other.
- 70VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibMistaken for Strangers, a documentary about indie group the National, comes off like an exercise in self-deprecation. As much a diary film as a rockumentary, it almost compulsively veers away from its ostensible subject.
- 70The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsMistaken For Strangers, which covers Tom’s time with the band and his subsequent attempts to piece together a movie about that time, is a sweet, funny, and sad film, but also an exceedingly odd one.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe brotherly-love epiphany to which the film builds does effectively pluck the heartstrings, but there’s a lingering sense that we’re being had.
- 50Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSlant MagazineKenji FujishimaAdds up little more than an anguished man using the hook of following his famous brother in order to gaze, however critically, at his reflection for 75 minutes.
- 40Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsMistaken for Strangers doesn't reveal anything about Tom but his own insecurity.