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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonRogerEbert.comOdie HendersonCall Me Lucky will be an especially grueling ride for those who can identify with Crimmins’ trauma. Yet its toughness does not at all diminish its worth. It remains an essential viewing experience.
- 80Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsCall Me Lucky is a loving but fair portrait of the artist as a heroic hothead.
- Angry, quixotic, tragic, heroic — Crimmins’ life is stunning. Catch this portrait and you can definitely call yourself lucky.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreCall Me Lucky is another of those “the funniest comic you never saw” documentaries.
- 75TheWrapTim AppeloTheWrapTim AppeloThere should be more Crimmins performance footage and fewer interviews that only reiterate points already made several times. Crimmins is preaching to the choir, and the film, while fascinating and inspiring, is at least a half-hour longer than it has story to tell.
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloGoldthwait stays behind the camera, but his long personal history with Crimmins provides him with access that no other filmmaker would likely have been able to get, given how ferociously the man guards his privacy.
- 63Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardBobcat Goldthwait's hand too nervously tempers Crimmins's outré tactics as kooky showmanship bred from unimaginable trauma.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenYou’ll be the richer for spending time in Crimmins’ company, but the material seems better suited to the small screen.
- 50The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe movie strains to drum up mystery as to the sources of Mr. Crimmins’s rage. When it finally spills the beans, you feel unnecessarily manipulated.
- Ironically, Call Me Lucky, a worshipful new documentary profile of Crimmins by comic-turned-filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait, has a little too much reverence for its irreverent subject.