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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The Film StageJohn FinkThe Film StageJohn FinkThe joy of Ferrara’s The Projectionist is simply in getting to know its subject.
- 75Slant MagazineSam C. MacSlant MagazineSam C. MacWhere The Projectionist ultimately excels ... is as the kind of cultural microcosm that makes Ferrara’s other documentaries feel at once urgent and incredibly rich in their broader implications.
- 75The PlaylistChris BarsantiThe PlaylistChris BarsantiA thin but heartfelt piece of work ... But with Ferrara content to let his subject mostly drive the show and not impose more of an authorial vision and context that could have created a grander narrative about the history of moviegoing in New York, the passion is missing.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThis labor of love should be embraced wherever the term cinephile means anything.
- 60The GuardianCharles BramescoThe GuardianCharles BramescoFor cinephiles, this will be effective propaganda in service of a belief they already hold, a reaffirmation of their purist convictions from a simpatico mind. ... [But it] can sometimes slip into slightness, as Ferrara pads an already slim run time.