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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Utterly absorbing and accessible. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: As raw and personal as a movie can be, the equivalent of a cinematic journal or diary. But it's also artfully constructed and articulated, written, edited and musically designed with often jolting brilliance. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The mesmerizing, trippy and thoroughly heartbreaking result of two decades' work. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: A lacerating portrait of a family in free-fall. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's just devastating stuff. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Tarnation may not always be pretty, but it's pure, powerful stuff. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A soul-baring scrapbook of a film, its audacity surpassed only by its tragedy. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A masterpiece. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A remarkable and remarkably compelling document. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A tortured, inspired, convulsively beautiful film memoir. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: In making beautiful peace with a difficult past, Caouette has delivered a promising vision of a future. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As Caouette lays out events in storybook fashion, what pulsates through Tarnation is that life, even at its most hellish, is a thing of perilous and desperate rapture. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: An astonishing multimedia diary ... all accompanied by a scrolled family history that is as harrowing to read as a ransom note. Read more
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: It transcends the recent trend of self-revelatory documentaries and becomes something rare: art. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Caouette lifts his story clear out of the victimized whine that bogs down so many confessional memoirs and offers the viewer instead an intimate look inside his ravaged yet loving head, at once street-smart and haloed by the naivete of a young saint. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: The results, Cuisinarted but coherent, are an entrancing, egocentric trip into a life so unfavored by fortune its owner would be forgiven for believing in past-life crimes and karmic retribution. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: By all odds, Tarnation should have been an unwatchable, masochistic morass, but Caouette's love for the broken Renee -- which is the true subject of the film -- is awe-inspiring. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Caouette has taken the broken pieces of two lives and slowly, painstakingly, pasted them together -- and created one superb work of art. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: It's a riveting high-wire act by a young man on the verge. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: It is to be hoped that Mr. Caouette can make many more films of all kinds, but he will probably never again be able to cut to the bone of his existence with such sublime feeling. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Certainly one of the strangest and most interesting movies of the year, and I suspect that in years to come a number of other strange and interesting movies will show traces of its influence. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Nearly impossible to watch, thoroughly unpleasant yet strangely arresting. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is a remarkable film, immediate, urgent, angry, poetic and stubbornly hopeful. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Its fierce emotional honesty can't be denied. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Although aggressively unconventional, it's never pretentious. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: Getting so close to real-life mental illness, via footage that spans many years, renders Tarnation a uniquely potent experience. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A tale of overwhelming sadness and fierce histrionics. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Heartbreaking film. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Mesmerizing. Read more