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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Arbus (whose actual work is unseen, presumably because of rights issues) remains an enigma, and Kidman's wispy portrayal doesn't give the film the center it needs. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: A revelatory, challenging and deeply affecting portrait, anchored by what may be Kidman's most profoundly moving performance to date. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Is it more interesting and entertaining than a straightforward biopic of Arbus would have been? Maybe. Is it more illuminating? Probably not. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: You'd expect a conventional biopic to be bland and overly telescoped. But Arbus's life and work ought to inspire something more than the generic tale of a repressed fifties doll wife who runs off with the circus. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Fur may not be entirely convincing, but it's made with a conviction that deserves respect. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The paperback edition of Patricia Bosworth's mesmerizing book is being published again this week. My advice is forget about the movie and grab this literary gem fast. You will really learn something. You will learn nothing from Fur. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Its nerviness only pays off in a few details and in Nicole Kidman's resourcefulness -- mainly a way of suggesting morbid curiosity as erotic stimulation, though the script manages to find diverse excuses for undressing her. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Fur starts stylishly, and confidently, but the film dwindles down to a chamber piece in a claustrophobic chamber. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The film takes enormous liberties by embellishing one small aspect of her life to the point of silliness. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I found it to be heavy-handed, pretentious dreck. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Not a single frame of Fur conveys Arbus's distinctive vision ... Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Fur is that rare movie that's too understated, so quiet and deliberate that it effectively buries consuming passions. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: As a biopic, it is as meretricious as most, but as a myth about love and loss, about otherness and identity, about compassion and revulsion, about fetishism and sex, about art and life, it will likely stay with you for days. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie officially becomes the one thing Arbus's photography refused to be: normal. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It remains simultaneously too far-fetched and thesis-driven to be convincing and too feelingly done to be ignored. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Arbus's life has been put through the fantasy blender. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Shainberg neither sugarcoats [Diane Arbus's] distance from her girls nor judges it. The filmmakers understand Arbus's story within the context of her time and upbringing. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: This fractured beauty-and-the-beast fairytale comes off disturbingly simple-minded. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's been a while since we saw a truly boggling sophomore slump, one of those infamous second-act follies, like Steven Soderbergh's Kafka, made by adirector blinded with ego and overreach. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If the movie is highly unlikely to connect with all who see it, it will connect on a deep level to some who do, in no small part because of Kidman's committed, even daring performance. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Downey, however, is remarkable, suppressing his trademark jitters and ticks and delivering a performance of heartbreaking sensitivity, no matter that he spends almost all of his screen time staring out from behind a forest of head-to-toe body hair. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It only does to the artist what museums have tried to do to her art, putting her in a neat little frame and sticking her on the wall, another exhibit in the sideshow. And it still leaves us, safe and separate, stranded on the other side of the glass. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Both in art and in death, Arbus escaped the demeaning constraints of society. By envisioning her as a flawlessly gorgeous mouse with no will of her own, [director] Shainberg and [screenwriter] Wilson have dragged her back. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: [Arbus's] most famous images still have the power to shock, hanging as they do on the walls of the world's museums. Fur, the movie about her, reaches for that same jolt and settles instead for a raised eyebrow. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Fur's misstep, and it is significant, is in the creature design of Lionel. The resemblance to Chewbacca is uncanny. He also looks a little like Lon Chaney's Wolf Man. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: My irritation progressed through contempt, eye-rolling, and, finally, a dull despair illuminated only by the imminent prospect of dinner. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Don't be fooled for a second by that subtitle. Fur bills itself as An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, but this thing's got all the imagination of a career bureaucrat slumped in his cubicle awaiting a pension. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Stilted, stylized and art-directed within an inch of its life, Shainberg's movie (which was written by his Secretary collaborator, Erin Cressida Wilson) manages to be both oppressively literal and fatefully fuzzy at the same time. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: If so blatant a fiction is placed in a co-starring role into an account of a real life what can you usefully take away from the movie? Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: [The] film illuminates Arbus' artistically brilliant, emotionally unstable life for no longer than the popping of a flash bulb. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: If you are seeking illumination about Arbus' artistry or her psyche, it's not here. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Impressively crafted and acted but far too narrowly and benignly conceived to satisfy even on its own terms. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: You won't learn much about Arbus, aside from the correct pronunciation of her first name; you will get to see Kidman try (and fail) to find her inner freak. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Purists will howl at the liberties Shainberg has taken with the facts, but there's a bravery to Fur, an uncompromising commitment to its narrow focus -- of one woman's creative birth -- that rhymes with Arbus's own artistic courage. Read more