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Metascore ®: 70
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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Noel Murray

When others can't see what parents see, there's an inescapable ache. As much as anything, My Kid Could Paint That is about that ache.

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91
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

Amir Bar-Lev's engrossing film is as much about the stubborn ambiguities of art, truth, meaning, and relationships as it is about the authenticity of the Olmstead oeuvre.

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91
San Francisco Chronicle | Kenneth Baker

No one emerges unpunished.

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75
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

In the last analysis, I guess it all reduces to taste and instinct. Some paintings are good, says me, or says you, and some are bad. Some paintings could be painted by a child, some couldn't be.

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75
Variety | Dennis Harvey

The popular human-interest story of a child prodigy becomes an engrossing meditation on truth, media exploitation and the value of art in My Kid Could Paint That.

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70
The Hollywood Reporter | James Greenberg

The film and the controversy should generate interest at the boxoffice, but it's more a story about media manipulation and parental responsibility than art.

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60
The New York Times | A.O. Scott

Mr. Bar-Lev has made an excellent documentary, but it would have been better if he had not made it at all.

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50
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

The longer it goes, the more frustrating it becomes, as Bar Lev declines to come down on one side or the other.

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50

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