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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- The creativity grows like kudzu in Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley's enlightening and often hilarious portrait of the Los Angeles artist Wayne White. And it yields a thousand blossoms.
- 88Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSlant MagazineElise NakhnikianNeil Berkeley's documentary is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White's creative juices that it makes you want to go straight home and start making things.
- 78Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesThe film is studded with stirring moments of surprise.
- Those with a high tolerance for the ultimate four-letter word, and a love for eccentrics, will be entertained by both White and his art.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleThough the movie isn't wildly original, its time-tested, artistic mantra of "just go out there and do it" is hard to resist.
- 75Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayBeauty Is Embarrassing stays true to White's own exacting standards: It's thoughtful, skillfully executed and pure pop pleasure, from start to finish.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAs one observer here aptly - and non-hyperbolically - sums it up, White is "a founding father of the current state of pop art."
- 60Time OutTime OutA breezily entertaining profile of painter, puppeteer and performer Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing places the kindhearted, foulmouthed subject front and center.
- 60New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNew Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottThe result is an artist profile that doesn't feel like the standard, stuffy artist profile. Instead, Beauty is Embarrassing is an entertaining whimsy that, like White, never takes itself too seriously, doesn't overstay its welcome and never, ever underestimates the value of a chuckle.
- 50Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrAn amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White.