Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Reviews

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• This is as good as documentary filmmaking gets, economical and deeply penetrating

  by Christopher Kelly [Dallas Morning News ]

• This film will surely make admirers and skeptics see Rivers with fresh eyes

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• There's not a timid, sympathy-begging minute in it. Even better, you leave Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work with the exhilarating feeling that the lady is just hitting her stride

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• the undeniably fascinating and entertaining documentary

  Review rate : B+ by Tom Long [Detroit News ]

• seriously funny

  by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• one of the smarter, more unexpectedly touching documentaries of the year

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• needy, hard-driving, and relentlessly self-flagellating aren't all that surprising

  by Alicia Potter [Boston Phoenix ]

• it's the messy, fascinating and sometimes embarrassing heart

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• It's a solid documentary but not a remarkable one

  Review rate : B by Steve Persall [St. Petersburg Times ]

• entertaining

  by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]

• engaging documentary

  by Lisa Kennedy [Denver Post ]

• convulsively funny movie

  by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]

• although Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is unmistakably a fawning love letter to an amazing performer, Rivers proves to be her sharpest, bluntest critic

  by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald ]

• a highly entertaining doc

  by John DeFore [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a compulsively watchable look at Rivers

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" compellingly presents a strong woman with no shortage of anger, resentment and regrets -- but not an ounce of self-pity

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

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