De Palma (film)


De Palma is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow about the director and screenwriter Brian De Palma. It had its world premiere at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, where it screened out of competition. The documentary has the archive footage presences of various De Palma's collaborators like Al Pacino, John Lithgow, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, John Travolta and various others.

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94%, based on 107 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's consensus states: "De Palma may not make believers out of the director's detractors, but they'll likely share longtime fans' fascination with his career's worth of entertaining stories." It has an 83/100 on Metacritic.