Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

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    Kimberley JonesAustin Chronicle
    This is, after all, a daughter profiling her dad and his co-worker. That intimacy informs the energy of the film, and opens up avenues hardly available to most documentarians.
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    Tim CogshellFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
    Great stuff over the last 40 years. I really enjoyed it.
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    Ann HornadayWashington Post
    The documentary double portrait of writer Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb bristles with ego and good-humored tension.
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    Albert WilliamsChicago Reader
    This engrossing 2022 documentary chronicles the 50-year-and-counting collaboration between two literary lions...
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    Peter RainerChristian Science Monitor
    Would Caro’s books have been any less great if he and Gottlieb had never met? Who knows? But as this bracingly affectionate film makes clear, it was the gift of a lifetime for both that they did.
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    Sheila O'MalleyRogerEbert.com
    An engaging documentary about a famous editor-writer partnership.
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    Sean P. MeansThe Movie Cricket
    The dual portrait Lizzie Gottlieb paints of these two men of letters is tender and absorbing. She loves these guys, these guys love each other — though they would be embarrassed to put that word to it — and they love the work.
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    Robin HolabirdRobin Holabird
    The complex dynamics between the two men create their own intriguing subject of a well-made documentary.
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    Russ SimmonsKKFI-FM (Kansas City)
    “Turn Every Page” is a fascinating and involving behind the scenes glimpse of these literary titans and their sometimes-contentious affiliation, a partnership that continues to this day.
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    Loren KingNewport This Week (RI)
    There’s no doubt both Gottlieb and Caro are geniuses, but more than that, the film shows them as curious, industrious and still meticulous about the written word.
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