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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneThe film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.
- 80EmpireDamon WiseEmpireDamon WiseBursting with insights and a droll sense of the absurd side of fashion, it's a fitting tribute to one of the industry's key figures.
- 80Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyRemarkably, much of that sizzling sensibility was caught on film and has been stylishly stitched together with her personal history in the scrumptious new documentary, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel.
- The filmmakers are clearly fans, and any of Vreeland's personal shortcomings - child-rearing, for instance - are only hinted at.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisDizzily enjoyable documentary.
- 60Total FilmCarmen GrayTotal FilmCarmen GrayA fashion world Who's Who offer accolades, while Vreeland's vulnerabilities are revealed in interviews telling how, ridiculed by her socialite mother as ugly, she invented herself on her own terms.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichAnna Wintour? Feh! There never was, and never will be, a style icon quite like Diana Vreeland.
- 60Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonThe outsize ideas, creativity, and spirit of this birdlike, unconventional-looking woman - called "my ugly little monster" by her mother, Vreeland resembles John Hurt in a jet-black wig - still dominate a project occasionally lacking the same attributes.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanWhile plenty of talking heads turn up to offer breathless praise, it's no surprise that the preeminent words of wisdom are, thanks to copious archival footage, Vreeland's own.