Hemingway: Miniseries

"Burns and Novick face the... challenge (of) an excess of material... Meeting that challenge, they demonstrate a fine eye for detail."

"It's not just the details unearthed here that make this a must-watch -- it's how everyone involved comes together to illuminate more than could be gained from a traditional biographical series."

"(Hemingway) celebrates his gifts, catalogues his flaws... and chronicles his decline with the tragic relentlessness its subject would give to the death of a bull in the ring."

"What makes Hemingway work... is the almost text-by-text analysis of his writing."

"What happens here is a journey toward the man's psyche and it is a gripping but uneasy journey."

"An engaging and beautifully constructed character study..."

"Proof that whatever Burns chooses to cover as a filmmaker will more than likely become the definitive documentary on that specific topic."

"Hemingway pulls off a tricky balance: It allows authors, scholars, and biographers to extol, celebrate, and elaborate upon Hemingway’s (writing), while also confronting them with instances of the man at his absolute nastiest, most abusive, and most delusional."

"In an appalling act of journalistic malpractice, the Burns and Novick series never even mentions the FBI file."

"Showcasing the attributes typical of Burns' work, (Hemingway) tells a sweeping story with compelling intimacy."