Beth B is not out to deliver a comprehensive biography. Instead, she achieves a vivid snapshot of a still-vital artist late in a still-purposeful life.
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Slant MagazineElise Nakhnikian
Slant MagazineElise Nakhnikian
It implies that not even the concentrated self-scrutiny required to make art like Ida Applebroog's is enough to make sense of ourselves to ourselves.
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Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
The film is a vehicle for Applebroog-appreciation, daughterly and otherwise.
It's in the more personal moments — such as when the artist enthusiastically describes her painting of an elderly Marilyn Monroe — that it becomes most interesting.