Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
You may not learn much about the hotel itself from Chelsea on the Rocks, but you come away knowing exactly what it was like to live there.
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Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
This is Ferrara's first documentary since 1977, and it has the crackbrained air of menace and the ferocious humor that mark his fictional works.
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Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Ferrera's shaggy tone, which fits the iconic building, gets irritating. Still, if you come for the stories, you'll stay for the company.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Chelsea on the Rocks rambles a bit, but it's a real slice of New York history that includes everything from Ethan Hawke recounting a hilarious story about Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at the hotel to footage of the 9/11 attacks...
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
An enraptured fantasia of high times at the hotel, the film is so intoxicated with the Chelsea's bohemian mystique it virtually consumes itself.
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