72
Metascore
24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 92TheWrapSam FragosoTheWrapSam FragosoA masterful, cinematic biography that unpacks a man’s life through his work, showing us an uncompromising and difficult man who apparently wouldn’t have had it any other way.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWhat results is a portrait of Wallace in effect in dialogue with himself, a presentation that puts viewers on edge a bit the way the man himself interacted with the world.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThis is an important and compulsively watchable portrait made by someone who understands the brute power of broadcast media and the people who make it for all the world to see, but it can only afford Mike Wallace with a little moment of truth, and the satisfaction of playing his part in the greater continuum of things.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreLester’s film underscores how few TV talkers today have the stature, much less the spine, to ask questions that people don’t want asked, much less be required to answer.
- 75Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayMuch like its subject, Avi Belkin’s documentary knows how to start an argument.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyWallace was clearly a very ambitious, capable and confident man, but the film, as absorbing as it is, is two-dimensional.
- 70VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonHe left behind enough tape from both ends of the microphone that Belkin is able to create his entire documentary with old footage, juiced by retro imagery of broadcast air waves and vintage dials and knobs.
- 70Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAvi Belkin’s documentary offers fascinating insights into what made its subject tick.
- 67The A.V. ClubJosh ModellThe A.V. ClubJosh ModellTo be blunt—which Wallace, who died in 2012, always was—Mike Wallace Is Here is fascinating but scattered, and never quite decides what its target should be.
- 60The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergThere are times when you wish Belkin wouldn’t cut away so quickly and would allow answers to tough questions (or Wallace’s own words) to play in full.