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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe result isn’t another ho-hum documentary likeness in which all the elements neatly and often flatteringly stack up. “Jim & Andy” is instead a complexly layered and textured Cubist portrait, one that’s been constructed from fragments of its two title subjects and their work.
- 90Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallIt makes for powerful and stimulating viewing whether or not a game is being played with viewers.
- 90VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanJim & Andy is fleetly edited and engrossing, animated by a sense of discovery.
- 90Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleCatnip for comedy nerds and psychoanalysts, "Jim & Andy" works as both a vibrant raising-of-the-dead for the crazed, showbiz-piercing genius that was Kaufman — there's plenty of footage from his performance-art career — and a peek into the mind of a massively talented, box office-busting comedy star at a self-doubting, turbulent time in his life
- 80The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanIt isn’t nearly as deep as it thinks it is, but it is marvellously entertaining.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAn original, unexpectedly affecting tribute to two distinctive comic performers.
- 75The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThere’s something bracing about the difficulty of reconciling this earnest middle-aged hippie with his maniacally impish younger self.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichEntertainment WeeklyDarren FranichJim & Andy is fascinating, but it lands on a weird message: Thank goodness Andy Kaufman existed so Jim Carrey could play him in a movie.
- 63Slant MagazineGreg CwikSlant MagazineGreg CwikThe film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
- 60CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleAs with Kaufman's own stunts, it's difficult to know what to take seriously.