Crumb

Crumb (1995)

  • 95% of critics liked it
    (41 reviews)

  • 87% of users liked it
    (8,608 ratings)

So well-regarded was the documentary Crumb (1994) that the failure of it and of the same year's equally acclaimed Hoop Dreams (1994) to result in Oscar nominations caused a media furor which forced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to revamp its documentary nomination process.… More

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May 19, 1995 Wide
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Mike Clark, USA Today

    Crumb's sense of humor is his saving personal grace and the movie's insurance policy against total immersion into the morbid. But just so you know, Crumb fully earns its most revealing screen credit: 'David Lynch Presents.'

  • R. L. Shaffer, IGN DVD

    Crumb may be rough around the edges, even occasionally tedious, but what Zwigoff manages to uncover is honest, captivating and strangely visceral.

  • Sean Axmaker, MSN.com

    (An) offbeat and often uncomfortably revealing portrait of the legendary underground comic book artist Robert Crumb and his brothers, Maxon and Charles...

  • John Lingan, Slant Magazine

    A balanced and insightful portrait of a fascinating artist, a wrenching and unvarnished depiction of a tragic family, an incredible statement of friendship, and one of the most inspired depictions of the creative process I've ever seen.

  • James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk

    an absolutely disarming documentary and one of the very best of its kind

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    I have a love hate relationship with Crumb's work. Most of it I love but the part I hate is explained as the main topic in this documentary. Indeed, everything becomes clear when you learn of his upbringing and to be honest out of the three brothers, it sounds like he got it… More

  • Lucas M


    Odd and wonderful study about Robert Crumb and underground comics with a dark view of America, sex and family.

  • Cindy I


    I have a hard time recommending this. The film is a typical talking head doc about comics artist Robert Crumb, with all the traits you'd expect -- childhood, interviews with family and friends, examples of his work. It's definitely interesting, and the guy is a talented… More

  • Chris G


    You have probably seen Robert Crumb's images somewhere, be it on a comic book, a set of mud flaps, or in your mind at night. Crumb's documentary is an examination of what led him to what could have been a lucrative existence as a 1960's icon that he shunned. Yes, Crumb… More

  • _kelly .


    A bold and unflinching examination of an (socially edgy) artist and his equally talented but more troubled male siblings. Deserved its Grandy Jury Prize at Sundance

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