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Radical Wolfe
Directed by
Richard Dewey
NR
2023
76m
Documentary
7.2
68%
76%
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With a distinctive style all his own, author and journalist Tom Wolfe reshapes how American stories are told.
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Cast of Radical Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Self (archive footage)
Michael Lewis
Self
Jann Wenner
Self
Gay Talese
Self
Lynn Nesbit
Self
Terry McDonell
Self
Tom Junod
Self
Christopher Buckley
Self
Niall Ferguson
Self
Alexandra Wolfe
Self
Radical Wolfe Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
"Radical Wolfe" is only 76 minutes long, but as directed by Richard Dewey, it's a highly entertaining movie that manages to pack in more or less every important thing you'd want to know about Tom Wolfe.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Manuel Betancourt
He was a larger than life character clearly playing a role, and this documentary does a good job of laying that out... We never skim past the surface, but you do get an exhaustive understanding of his career.
National Review
Armond White
A short, 71-minute overview of the career of writer Tom Wolfe, it feels like a principled reminder of what journalism used to be, offering Wolfe's originality, professionalism, and integrity.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
[An] engaging documentary portrait.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
Though the film can't capture Wolfe's writing, it does a public service in passing along its subject's wisdom.
Spectrum Culture
Alan Zilberman
Radical Wolfe fails its subject and does something much worse - especially given Wolfe's legacy. It is relentlessly, tiresomely mediocre.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The documentary is always lively. Archival clips zip by and nobody ever gets more than a sentence or two before the film cuts away, which means it never burrows in as often as you might want it to, considering the colorful, thick life on display.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
It's a rote and lazy documentary.
Splice Today
Stephen Silver
This fine documentary shows that Wolfe was often at odds with the establishment of the day, yet doing so never hurt his career much; it probably helped him.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
In a way, Radical Wolfe is a postcard from another land, a stimulating, if ultimately wistful, look back at the last world-famous American reporter and his times.
The Playlist
Chris Barsanti
Richard Dewey's Tom Wolfe doc celebrates his journalistic bravery but doesn't emulate it.
New York Times
Devika Girish
Richard Dewey's staid, by-the-book documentary can hardly match the flair with which Wolfe lived and wrote.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A spiffy documentary on the life and work of Tom Wolfe, who pioneered disruptive journalism and exposed American obsessions.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Even if doing Wolfe justice, it does not capture his unique stylish writing ability.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"Radical Wolfe" has the potential to inspire its viewers to read a Tom Wolfe book. You might even venture into the work of Wolfe's contemporaries, Hunter S. Thompson, John Irvine, Joan Didion, or Kurt Vonnegut.
Epoch Times
Mark Jackson
"Radical Wolfe" reveals Wolfe to be-despite the flamboyant style and trademark white-suit-dandy-fication-a powerfully principled, conservative-leaning, old-school masculine, commonsensical, unerringly polite, American family man and Southern gentleman.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
While this documentary offers a competent career retrospective, its straightforward approach doesn't sufficiently capture Wolfe's iconoclastic spirit or audacity.
Crooked Marquee
Craig D. Lindsey
Radical is standard-issue, but still satisfying. Producer/director Richard Dewey rounds up the usual selection of archival footage -- interviews, news profiles, photographs -- to weave together Wolfe's life and times.
What She Said
Anne Brodie
A wonderfully illuminating and entertaining look at the late, great iconoclast
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
Dewey just doesn't have the patience for a subtle approach. Sections of this informative but unimaginative movie are presented as hectic montages in an apparent attempt to mirror Wolfe's speedy, ebullient prose.
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