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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TheWrapCandice FrederickTheWrapCandice FrederickMarked by evolving degrees of miraculous vivacity, dread, despair, and ultimately hope, Tell Me Who I Am reflects a fraternal relationship equally encumbered by truth and lies but strengthened by love and an unflinching revelation in real time. It is utterly staggering.
- 90Film ThreatAlan NgFilm ThreatAlan NgTell Me Who I Am is an incredible real-life mystery.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThis remarkable true story is a finely crafted exercise in slow-building suspense, though it works better as a gripping mood piece than as journalistic investigation, its raw confessional style slightly compromised by niggling narrative gaps and dramatic contrivances.
- 75RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyRogerEbert.comTomris LafflyTheir tangible shared pain quickly turns an awkward performativeness into a most genuine therapy session, one that is both disarming and uplifting to observe.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattBut the truth, when it does come out, is devastating — to the point that it can feel invasive to watch such a profoundly private moment unfold on camera for our benefit.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichIt’s hard to imagine a more crystalline look at the suppleness of someone’s self-identity (and the moral dilemma of someone else choosing to overwrite it) than Ed Perkins’ Tell Me Who I Am, a documentary so harrowing and horrific that it can only bear to scratch at the surface of its remarkable story.
- 70The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyTheir moment of resolution at the end is very moving, but the movie also testifies that while love and forgiveness can ameliorate suffering, it can’t really wipe it all away.
- 70Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangIn its most rewardingly complicated moments, this absorbing, incomplete documentary reminds us that there is nothing definitive about what we think we know.
- 50Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonBy focusing so narrowly on the Lewis brothers’ relationship with their mother, the film inadvertently minimizes the scope of their abuse.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIn the documentary, the director appears to be interviewing the twins separately, but he’s really just filming them as they recite their own story. They’ve chosen their words carefully; they cry on cue; and they share just enough, while holding back an enormous amount of information.