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Ex Libris
2017 3h 25m
Documentary
7.4
97%
61%
62%
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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
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Directed By
Frederick Wiseman
Studio
Zipporah Films
,
JustFilms / Ford Foundation
,
PBS
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Cast of Ex Libris
Elvis Costello
Self
Richard Dawkins
Self
Patti Smith
Self
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self
Ex Libris Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Ex Libris" is a profoundly hopeful movie. We could use that right now.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It's fascinating, if overlong. "Ex Libris" is the kind of film that makes you realize what wonders we too often take for granted, and how much work and passion go into such wonders.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
As with all of Wiseman's films, the whole is so very much greater than the sum of its parts.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Maybe one temple of learning will inspire a visit to another: see the movie, then pop into your local biblioteca.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Ultimately Ex Libris demonstrates that libraries are about people, and what gives the film its great and accumulating force is that people are infinitely complex.
Washington Post
Alan Zilberman
This is slow, almost languid filmmaking, yet it's a delight to watch the countless ways in which the library is still capable of lifting us.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
[An] endearing shaggy dog of a documentary.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
There are so many wonderful activities of compassion that Wiseman captures that my heart burst about a dozen times (a conservative estimate).
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
If this world has you in need of a little healing time, go, go, go and see it: it's a lovely, gracious, soul-satisfying thing.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Ex Libris proves that the idea of the library is still going strong, though the idea of "the public" may be another matter.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
The democracy of his filmmaking is, as ever, striking; this is one of our most American artists, and 'Ex Libris' is the very definition of what he does well.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Ex Libris: The New York Public Library" is more than a magisterial mash note to that distinguished establishment, it's a heartening examination of the vastness of human knowledge and the multiple ways we the people endeavor to access it.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Ex Libris's graceful exit suggests that Wiseman always knew exactly where he was headed.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
One would be quite wrong to regard Frederick Wiseman as a mere observer, rather than the agent-provocateur he is.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
Wiseman loves to let his sequences go on and on. But he also knows better than anybody just how long he can keep us engaged, and as a simple viewing experience, Ex Libris is spellbinding.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
One of the greatest movies of Mr. Wiseman's extraordinary career and one of his most thrilling.
The Ringer
K. Austin Collins
This institutional study morphs into a story about people. You, in the audience, become one of them. And you walk away all the better for it.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Ex Libris suggests a college course and a guided tour that have been wedded together as a work of prismatic humanist art.
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Graceful and all-embracing ...
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Another butt-numbing nonfiction epic from this living legend of the medium.
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