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Metascore
15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanPenn Badgley saunters around with an air of spooky self-possession, and he does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail.
- 75The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayAlgrant’s film — which he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel — is really about Tim Buckley’s son, Jeff, an equally adventurous rocker whose fame ultimately eclipsed his father’s, though he too died young.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversBadgley, best known for playing "lonely boy" Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl, is a revelation. He wears his role like a second skin.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungDan Algrant’s lyrical recreation of a father-son relationship seen over time, through memory and music, has a sense of urgent originality that works even apart from its great Tim Buckley score.
- 60Village VoiceCalum MarshVillage VoiceCalum MarshThe film articulates this dimension of the story, regrettably, in little more than biopic platitudes and daddy-issue clichés...But it's not all bad. Badgley delivers a nuanced performance of such ferocity he almost singlehandedly makes a conventional film seem loose and improvisatory.
- 58The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthThere is no doubt that Greetings From Tim Buckley is respectful, and thanks to Badgley and Rosenfield, does justice to both singers. But the film never quite connects father and son as each sharing the common bond of extraordinary talent or even similar personal woes.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe result is at once skillfully observed and a bit so-what.
- 50Slant MagazineNick McCarthySlant MagazineNick McCarthyDespite the counter-culture subjects at its core, Daniel Algrant's film possesses a put-upon hipness that cannot mask its disarming dorkiness.
- 40Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearOther than an impromptu spectacle in a downtown record store, little of the chops and charisma Buckley fils had in spades is channeled; this is still the usual Let Us Now Praise Famous Men karaoke session, wrapped up in some extra-discordantly warbled notes.
- 20New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsFor all the star’s efforts, the movie itself ends up little more than an exploitation item, a sad place-holder until the real thing comes along.