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2018
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4.5
Hes not only palpably enamored with his subject, hes indignant about Foleys obscurity.
Av Club
4.5
Shambling on for more than two hours of disjointed memories, Blaze isnt in much of a hurry to put the parts of a life together.
Indie Wire
3.2
The film isnt a jigsaw puzzle, where every piece neatly fits into a greater whole; its more like a drunken night of people sitting around and remember ..
Indie Wire
3.5
You may not always like the man, but Blaze makes sure youll damn well love his songs.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
This is what filmmakers do when they want to make a grand statement about time, about the irrelevance of labels like past, present, and future, especi ..
Vulture
4.4
Theyre two of the most consistent and fascinating performances of the year.
Rogerebert
5.0
Competing in the US Dramatic Competition category, Hawkes film is a gorgeous portrait of a true life, tender songwriter whose proper recognition is pr ..
Rogerebert
4.5
Managing to balance dispassionate observation with a sympathetic interest in individual motivations, The Wild Pear Tree once again demonstrates Nuri B ..
Film Inquiry
3.5
Eight euros, please.Tone, or a dissonant layering of tones, is what counts most in a tale of this kind.
New Yorker
3.8
Languid in its pace and over abundant in its storytelling, the film runs about twenty minutes too long, thought its a softer criticism than it may rea ..
The Film Stage
4.5
But Hawke and Rosen and Dickey have given the man something better than posthumous record sales.
Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Shawkat delivers a tone of battered strength and ambitious beauty to Sybil, a romantic and aspiring Broadway actress.
Birth Movies Death
5.0
BLAZE is sometimes touching, but its almost profoundly unsentimental.
Variety
4.5
But the mere absence of these tired story points isnt a virtue in itself.
Consequence Of Sound
3.5
Hes made a film that rambles, scrambles, fights its way to the finish line, exactly the way its subject would have wanted it to be.
The Play List
2.5
And so it makes sense that Hawke would co write and direct this biopic about country singer songwriter Blaze Foley.Hawke makes some interesting, uncon ..
Larsen On Film
5.0
This is a production that is polished in the craft of creating a very unpolished life.
Awards Circuit
3.8
Film Review Blaze Blaze This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender says the etching around the body of the guitar owned by late singer son ..
Mac Guff
4.5
The musical period piece is not only a visual work of art, but the feature film manage often raft moments of true poetry throughout its carefully exec ..
Geek Girl Authority
3.8
Hawke delivers a captivating narrative about a man who was larger than life.
Sa Current
3.8
But Dickey gives Foley a bearish charm, self medicated instability and a swaggering desperation.
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