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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe tale is told entirely through Rock’s perspective, with no friends, colleagues, or talking heads weighing in. But that turns out to be no detriment, since the Cambridge-educated photographer proves a witty and rueful commentator whose observations are infused with self-deprecating humor.
- 75Slant MagazineWes GreeneSlant MagazineWes GreeneThroughout, the content and tenor of certain stories told by Mick Rock ambitiously inform the film’s style.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger Moore“Shot!” makes for a light, smart and often funny dance through an era with the man whose images made icons out of many, and burned those icons into our visual memory.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichRock’s lack of self-importance prevents the doc from fetishizing the past, and Clay — who appears to have met the photographer on the set of a TV on the Radio video — is wise to assume that the world doesn’t need yet another reminder that it used to be full of gods.
- 60Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe talking heads (lower case) are fine, but the dream-drama music-video theater piece of Rock on a gurney while nurses and doctors consult around him takes too much time away from the reason people want to see this: what Rock saw.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe maximalist approach isn’t necessary to enhance the wild tales, but the film does reflect its subject in its messy yet invigorating approach.
- 60Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonNarrated entirely by its subject – no famous faces popping up to tell us what a ledge he is – the film is intimate and crisply told.
- 50The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe movie’s approach is gratuitously grandiose.