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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesAndy WebsterThe New York TimesAndy WebsterA record of a man’s tormented youth, his broad artistic impulses and the price he paid for following them.
- 88Boston GlobePeter KeoughBoston GlobePeter KeoughBernstein communicates Ungerer’s manic spirit and his irrepressible creativity by punctuating the conventions of talking-head interviews and archival footage with animated snippets of Ungerer’s thousands of illustrations.
- 80Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyAs intriguing as the facts are, much of the documentary's charm is the way in which it embeds the work.
- 75Slant MagazineNick McCarthySlant MagazineNick McCarthyBrad Bernstein's documentary proves that Ungerer's legacy is as historically significant as it is artistically.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleThe filmmaker makes ample use of Ungerer's drawings and existing documentary material, but sensibly lets the man tell most of his own story, which lends Far Out Isn't Far Enough a raconteur's charm rare among film studies of artists' lives.
- 70Village VoiceMichelle OrangeVillage VoiceMichelle OrangeThe film's delighted affinity with Ungerer's well-turned perspective does lend an advertorial slickness to what might have been a more challenging study of a fascinating and famously elusive subject.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreLike many such films, the subject seems more fascinating than the Far Out Isn’t Far Enough’s treatment of him.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesNell MinowChicago Sun-TimesNell MinowIt is a story worth telling. But Bernstein cannot bring himself to apply the same brutal honesty to his subject as Ungerer does to his.
- 60Time OutMichael AtkinsonTime OutMichael AtkinsonHardly the trippy icon the doc’s title suggests, the artist is now more like everyone’s slightly seedy hedonistic granduncle, happiest sketching cartoon pigs and walking the moors of County Cork.