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Radical Wolfe

2023

Documentary, Jon Hamm. Self: Tom Wolfe, Michael Lewis ...

Documentary From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Tom recognized the importance in overlooked micro-cultures and people, documenting everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts.

	Media	Author	Review
		Chris Barsanti The Playlist	"A nice, well-meaning, staid film"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A highly entertaining movie that manages to pack in more or less every important thing you'd want to know about Tom Wolfe"
		Andrew Parker The Gate	"Wolfe might've been flattered by what's being said about him here, but he also probably would've hated just how vigorously Dewey tries to cozy up to such greatness"
		Kyle Smith The Wall Street Journal	"Though the film can't capture Wolfe's writing, it does a public service in passing along its subject's wisdom"
		Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Engaging documentary portrait (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Mark Jenkins The Washington Post	"Informative but unimaginative movie (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Devika Girish The New York Times	"Richard Dewey's staid, by-the-book documentary can hardly match the flair with which Wolfe lived and wrote"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"As tributes go, the documentary is always lively (...) It never burrows in as often as you might want it to, considering the colorful, thick life on display"

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