What elevates the picture above the norm is a series of remarkably candid and eerily prescient interviews.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Even non-fans will appreciate what a tough act Reatard is to follow, though, and anybody with a shred of respect left for rock 'n' roll will feel loss and anger at his passing.
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Slant MagazineNick Schager
Slant MagazineNick Schager
Intimacy doesn't completely give rise to insight in this loving, if largely for-fans-only, posthumous portrait of Memphis-bred punk rocker Jay Reatard.
The result is a frustratingly superficial look at a smart, driven and sometimes frightened young man who always felt as though he were "racing against time."