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Howard

Howard

2018

Don Hahn

Documentary, Self: Howard Ashman, Sarah Gillespie, Jeffrey Katzenberg ...

6.8

277

Documentary The story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"A rich cinematic portrait (...) De visión obligada para los aficionados al cine y al teatro"	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"There’s stuff there to appeal to anyone who’s ever hummed along to 'Under the Sea' (...) Ashman’s legacy is secure"	POS
United States	Drew Taylor Collider	"Powerful and profound (...) the fullness of [Howard's] life is rendered beautifully, with complexity, texture and detail. And yes, you will probably cry. A lot."	POS
United States	Caroline Siede AV Club	"Even for those outside of the Disney musical demographic, Howard is a moving portrait of an artist taken too soon during an era tragically marked by those kind of losses."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There’s something exciting about a film that immerses you in the life of a creative artist, and so it proves with this documentary (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There is nothing Disneyfied about this frankly intimate documentary (...) a labor of love that shows admirable restraint about using spoonful of sugars to make the medicine go down (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"A film intimately aware that no celebration of a life can be uncoupled from the emptiness left in its wake."	POS

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