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

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    lluminating and exceptional docu-portrait. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post |

    What begins as an indulgent vanity piece (Seinfeld was a producer of the film) ends up as a fascinating portrait of creativity at its most compulsive. Read full review

  • 80
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    It's funny as hell, and like all comedy that stings, sorrowful at its core. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Instead of prying into his soul, the filmmakers investigate his working conditions and offer a sort of backstage ethnographic study of the professional stand-up culture. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The thrust of the movie is that even for Jerry, the quintessential scientist of stand-up, comedy is very, very hard to do. By the end, you're closer to knowing why. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Entertaining. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Gains much greater texture from the intercutting between the two performers than had it remained simply a Seinfeld promotional project. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Despite amazing access to Seinfeld backstage, we don't get a peek into the real man. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie was produced by Seinfeld, and protects him. The visuals tend toward the dim, the gray and the washed-out, and you wish instead of spending a year with their store-boughts, they'd spent a month and used the leftover to hire a cinematographer. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Jan Stuart

    What makes Comedian more than just another documentary about the comedy club comeback of a sitcom prince is that it contrasts his struggle with that of just another stand-up climber, Orny Adams. Read full review

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