December 8, 2011
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader
Nigel West,
Mark Seaman,
Xavier Vinader,
Stan Vranckx,
Aline Griffith
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To the Nazis he was Codename: Alaric.To the British he was simply Garbo.To the world he was a mystery.But 30 years after the facts and fiction, the cloak of mystery that kept him hidden and tied to Al... read more
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December 8, 2011
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
An engrossing documentary that is itself largely a work of the director's imagination. Full Review
November 24, 2011
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Director Edmon Roch makes some smart conceptual choices that honor his subject's self-invention and mystery. Full Review
November 18, 2011
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Fascinating though it is, the movie is thin on historical materials. Full Review
November 18, 2011
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
Doc's incredible tale of WWII espionage would likely work better as a feature film. Full Review
November 17, 2011
Rachel Saltz, New York Times
Edmon Roch has a great story to tell in "Garbo the Spy," and he recounts it with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie: "Garbo" is dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts. Full Review
November 17, 2011
Mark Jenkins, NPR
Pulling Garbo's story from Roch's film requires considerable effort. The director takes a cinema verite approach to historical material, which never works, and forgoes narration. Full Review
November 15, 2011
Karina Longworth, Village Voice
Some of this footage feels like filler, but Roch's concept is strong: He's creating a dialogue between the fictions Pujol created to help win the war and the fictions Hollywood created to memorialize ... Full Review
March 10, 2011
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
How does one make a documentary about a cipher? In "Garbo the Spy," Roch solves that problem, and magnificently so. Full Review
April 24, 2012
Andrea Chase, Killer Movie Reviews
World War II ended more than half a century ago, but heretofore unknown stories are still surfacing from it. Few, if any, are more fascinating that the eponymous subject of Edmond Roch's stylishly eng... Full Review
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