Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present 2012

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Ms. Abramovic is an eloquent and passionate explicator of her art and the experiences that informed it. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: The Artist Is Present does at least seem to capture moments where Abramovic seems genuine... Read more

Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe: "She's never not performing," says one friend. And the documentary, "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present," confirms it. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The film's centerpiece is the retrospective devoted to Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art in the spring of 2010. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: We're given an intimate seat to this wildly democratic - and creepily messianic - spectacle. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Challenging art is made accessible in doc about performance-art sensation Marina Abramović. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A portrait of an artist whose life and work intertwine in ways even more compelling than might be imagined. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: When director Matthew Akers is able to make Abramovic's titular 2010 MoMA exhibition - featuring anonymous, silent, face-to-face sit-downs - undeniably moving, something is obviously working. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: The second half offers shot after shot of the people who sat opposite Abramovi - an unexpectedly enthralling record of reactions that range from stark agony to rather phony amusement. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: In place of evenhandedness, the film gives us a full sense of a personality and intelligence so riveting that we begin to comprehend why all those hundreds of thousands lined up at the MoMA. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The film goes a long way to establish the intellectual seriousness and dedication involved in her ambitious series of art stunts. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Abramovic is raw and likeable, if mostly inscrutable. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Rare is the profile that captures so much oddness with so little judgment. You owe yourself a chance to be challenged. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Briskly edited and brightly shot. Read more

Murray Whyte, Toronto Star: So magnetic is she that if Abramovic had chosen to be a baker, or a janitor, you could still make a film about her and it would be only slightly less bombastic, and no less stirring. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: An intelligent overview that makes a radical artist's work comprehensible to audiences with no previous awareness of her or her chosen path. Read more

Chris Packham, Village Voice: She's trying to access a shared humanity, to foster an unusual intimacy with viewers-to strip herself, often literally, to a naked and undeniable truth. Read more