Untouchable: reviews

What the critics say average 6.0 from 5 outlets

• 7.0 CinemaníaAndrea G. Bermejo While the portrait of the testimonies is chilling while tremendously shabby, one ends up wondering what the image brings and if, in fact, it would not have been a good podcast. Read
• 6.0 El PeriódicoQuim Casas Weinstein is no longer untouchable and this new documentary approach to his figure as a sexual predator, not as King Midas of independent cinema through Miramax, affects everything we already know. Read
• 6.0 FotogramasManu Piñón The best: give full prominence to the testimonies of the victims. The worst: there are absences that are complicated to justify. Read
• 6.0 El MundoLuis Martínez The merit of this documentary is not that of revelation or novelty as that of clarity. Read
• 5.0 El PaísJordi Costa A chronicle of the genesis of the Me Too movement would have been more stimulating material than the nth portrait of a monster. Read
• Roger EbertNick Allen [Its] directorial decisions only highlight just how much the doc has to say with its content, but not as much with its form. Read
• Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt What this doc shows in excruciating detail is exactly how he was allowed to get as far as he did, and exactly what impact that had on his alleged victims Read
• New York PostJohnny Oleksinski I think there is a more shattering, potent documentary about this man and his misdeeds still to come ? perhaps after the world has more time to absorb the true enormity of it. Read
• IndiewireDavid Ehrlich It's the personal testimonies that lend this film its purpose, but Macfarlane uses them to serve Weinstein's story, when it really ought to be the other way around. Read
• The WrapSharon Waxman What director Ursula Macfarlane's film does best is place the Weinstein scandal in context, revisiting the early years of Bob and Harvey, two brothers set on challenging the staid parameters of Hollywood filmmaking by making bold choices. Read