Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Matthew Akers

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Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Synopsis

Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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100
Time Out
Rare is the profile that captures so much oddness with so little judgment. You owe yourself a chance to be challenged.
91
Entertainment Weekly
We're given an intimate seat to this wildly democratic - and creepily messianic - spectacle.
83
The A.V. Club
The documentary seems a little structureless and unfocused at times, as Akers moves from dramatic moment to dramatic moment, not always taking care to connect them.
70
Variety
An intelligent overview that makes a radical artist's work comprehensible to audiences with no previous awareness of her or her chosen path.
67
IndieWire
The filmmaker's first-rate access feels like a kind of desecration.
63
Slant Magazine
As entertaining as the documentary is, it never really measures up to the fascination and sheer force of personality of its subject.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Matthew Akers' film is a personally revealing look at an artist most famous for maintaining stone-faced silence for three months.
60
The New York Times
Like many other recent documentaries about artists, it is more celebratory than analytical, a kind of slick, extended promotional video for its subject.