| Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended
"...Barnes clearly aims to deconstruct the Brando myth to expose the battered man beneath. But the Streetcar legend has long been dead, replaced by the disease-ridden man whose death we witnessed in 2004. Laying that latter figure’s secrets bare feels less an upheaval of our stilted Brando narrative than an exploitation of it."
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Steadstyle Chicago - Somewhat Recommended
"...The story is not all that it could be. I had hoped for a lot more, as Brando was indeed an icon in the industry. While it centered upon his loneliness and his inability to find happiness, despite having the world worship and adore him, most of what we see is that he had no true feeling for his children, at least that they could see and just like his parents, did the best that he could do. Growing up without love and caring could not have prepared him to give back the same, so in a way, he became his parents. What he was able to express on the screen was something that he evidently could not express in his life."
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