A compulsively watchable look at Rivers, show business and the price one pays to try to continue succeeding in it.
– Bill Goodykoontz,
Arizona Republic,
24 Jun 2010
rotten:
Acting is about honesty, and there's something evasive about both this film and its subject.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
25 Jun 2010
fresh:
Welcome to the on-screen psychoanalysis of Joan Rivers, of which she seems equal parts willing participant and antagonist.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Jul 2010
fresh:
The new documentary on Joan Rivers is so in your face, so fraught with harrowing, oversized personal stuff, you might want to get a theatre seat a couple of rows behind where you normally sit, to safely take it all in.
– Stephen Cole,
Globe and Mail,
13 Aug 2010
fresh:
This behind the scenes, behind the makeup, behind the plastic surgery documentary catches Rivers hard at work, ridiculously hard at work.