The Nomi Song: Critic Reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 41 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

84

Forget Devo, Nico, Bowie, or Beefheart: The most mesmerizing freak show in the history of rock & roll was Klaus Nomi.
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Dana Stevens New York Times (Top Critic)

70

Chronicles the short and haunting life of Klaus Sperber, a trained classical singer from Essen, Germany, who came to New York as a young man in the late 1970's.
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Mostly fascinating, but occasionally frustrating.
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Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

Paints a vivid portrait of the sense of play and possibility that animated the best of the punk and new wave movements.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Amusingly and wistfully records how the artist and his crowd tried to make a success of it beyond the Mudd Club and other downtown haunts.
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J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Made with considerable wit and style, Horn's thoughtful celebration of the era and its most uncanny diva could function as the show's supplement.
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Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

63

Like most cult bios, this barely skims its subject's private life. Fortunately, there are copious clips of Nomi's mesmerizing performances.
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Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

75

The Nomi Song is pieced together from photos, performance footage, and talking-head interviews, but director Andew Horn has taken great care to fashion a strong story arc.
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

Andrew Horn's film charts Nomi's remarkable rise, his brief cult fame and his untimely flameout in 1983 as one of the arts community's earliest AIDS fatalities.
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Leslie Felperin Variety (Top Critic)

An absorbing homage to obscure but fascinating late '70s-early '80s German stage artiste Klaus Nomi.
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Debra Birnbaum New York Post (Top Critic)

63

A thorough if predictable Behind the Music episode.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

80

This is fascinating stuff if you know just the commercial side of that strange music and fashion ripple known as New Wave.
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Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Nomi Song pays tribute to both the man born Klaus Sperber and his anything goes era.
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Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

70

Horn, who knew Nomi, does an excellent job of evoking the exhilaratingly hedonistic period the film covers as well as the long shadow that the coming of AIDS casts over it.
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Time Out

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AV Club

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Jean-Francois Vandeuren Panorama

70

Un documentaire qui rend justice a un personnage fascinant, mais dont on aurait tout de meme voulu en savoir davantage
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Bill Gibron DVD Verdict

90

While he was never a Top 40 hitmaker, Klaus Nomi was an important artist...and The Nomi Song is a cinematic anthem to his unorthodox individuality.
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Ryan Cracknell Movie Views

Like Nomi's work, there is some distinct style at play that reflects its subject matter.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Jules Brenner Cinema Signals

60

A well-made doc of a beyond-description music act that combined cabaret, operatic falsetto, and the stark minimalism of a cheesy 1940 sci-fi pic.
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Luke Y. Thompson New Times

If retro ain't your thing, fear not; this doesn't feel dated in the least.
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Jason Ferguson Orlando Weekly

This film expertly captures the scenesters' singular, blinding devotion to art at all costs, as well as their playful and communal attitudes.
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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall

60

This intriguingly well-made documentary tells us just about everything we could possibly want to know about the mesmerising 1970s singer.
Full Review » 7 years ago