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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Toback presents specific characters dealing with specific problems and, through their stories, somehow manages to take the temperature of the times. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The agony of invention is there on the screen. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    Fascinating, perplexing, amusing, and irascible. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    It's another of Mr. Toback's quick-talking autobiographies that, like the best pop, have a clock running on their expiration dates. Read full review

  • 60
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    This lively mess proves that when Toback loses his head, he does it with style. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    There's something deeper at play in the film, something psychologically foul, voyeuristic and personal. Read full review

  • 40
    Salon.com | Charles Taylor

    Toback's method of presenting the evidence without judgment backfires, finally appearing just as shapeless as the movie's structure. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Sometimes laughably incoherent. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | John Anderson

    The voyeuristic indulgences of a middle-aged filmmaker playing out his most deep-seated and unresolved sexual fantasies and anxieties. Read full review

Black and White (1999) Movie Ratings + Reviews

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