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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaRichly informative and fascinating.
- 80The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldThe New York TimesDaniel M. GoldMs. Vreeland has paced her documentary well, a chapter to each era, with hundreds of beautiful images spanning decades of artists, galleries, parties, scenes. She also makes good use of interviews Guggenheim gave to a biographer a couple of years before her death in 1979.
- 80Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenLisa Immordino Vreeland deftly choreographs the story in her vibrant documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, at once a capsule history of Modernism and a poignant personal portrait.
- 80EmpireIan NathanEmpireIan NathanBy smuggling canvasses out of Nazi Paris, she was “midwife” to Pollock and Rothko. “Art,” the doc claims, “was a mirror of her own strangeness.”
- 75Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanAs this film’s engrossing character study makes clear, this woman of extraordinary tastes and appetites was ahead of her time, in more ways than one.
- 70Village VoiceMarsha McCreadieVillage VoiceMarsha McCreadieGuggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the rest of us the film might stir wishful nostalgia for a breakthrough time in cultural history.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeIn a brisk hour and a half Vreeland gives a good sense of her impact, while telling stories of so many love affairs and ego clashes Art Addict never feels a bit like a history lesson.
- 63Boston GlobeMark FeeneyBoston GlobeMark FeeneyIf the documentary isn’t especially deep, maybe that’s because its subject wasn’t.
- 60VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergGuggenheim is such a fascinating figure that few will snipe at a character analysis that rarely gets below the surface.
- 50TheWrapInkoo KangTheWrapInkoo Kang"Art Addict” may be encyclopedic, but it’s all-too-rarely insightful.