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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensInstead of prying into his soul, the filmmakers investigate his working conditions and offer a sort of backstage ethnographic study of the professional stand-up culture.
- 75Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowSeinfeld is the perfect figure to center a documentary called, generically, Comedian.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannEntertaining.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezShows Jerry Seinfeld as you've never seen him before: being unfunny.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe thrust of the movie is that even for Jerry, the quintessential scientist of stand-up, comedy is very, very hard to do. By the end, you're closer to knowing why.
- 67Portland OregonianShawn LevyPortland OregonianShawn LevyIt's an agreeable, sometimes hilarious picture that looks at the world of comedy from many vantage points, chiefly the apex.
- 60The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAs a portrait of a man at the top of his profession starting over, it's involving throughout, and funny, too. Its range proves too narrow to support the questions it raises, but it's memorable for the point it repeats.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie was produced by Seinfeld, and protects him. The visuals tend toward the dim, the gray and the washed-out, and you wish instead of spending a year with their store-boughts, they'd spent a month and used the leftover to hire a cinematographer.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA not particularly revealing documentary.
- 40L.A. WeeklyMark OlsenL.A. WeeklyMark OlsenHas moments of real interest, but they require wading through a lot of dead air.