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(1 - 14) of 14 OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Maybe the paintings (many of which are quite extraordinarily complex and beautiful) are indeed collaborations of a sort between Mark and Marla; should it matter?"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti B+ "My Kid Could Paint That" is a thought-provoking movie about the ethical shades of gray. See it for yourself."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "While My Kid doesn't suggest that "truth is relative," it doesn't insist on a single judgment of truth. Instead, it asks viewers to ponder how certainty and doubt reinforce one another, how the need for truth creates its own truth."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...an awfully slight yet basically agreeable documentary..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B+ "A bit ragged around the edges technically, but makes up for the imperfections on that score with its engrossing content."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A fascinating documentary about abstract art, child prodigies, play and media exploitation."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat A "[The film] touches on a lot of Big Ideas, but above all it focuses on the nature of narratives...[Bar-Lev's] film is simply a story that he's created, and though it deals in real people and facts, it's not necessarily "the truth"."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "Maddening and more than a little thought-provoking."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3.5/5 "My Kid Could Paint That is a welcome return to ambiguity in the documentary, while posing perhaps the year's most intriguing mystery."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner A- "...raises all kinds of questions and answers few, but I doubt any viewer could walk away without opinion. It's a well-structured, thought-provoking, even suspenseful piece of work."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/4 "Bar-Lev also explores the freakish popular appeal of child prodigies [and] the family dynamics that come into play when a child's celebrity and earning capacity overshadows the adults.'"   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4.5/5 "I love a documentary that doles out both sides of an interesting story and then forces you to decide for yourself where the truth actually lies."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg A "Like the best of the new wave of American documentaries, it becomes about far more than the human-interest angle at the center of the story..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 4/4 "That Bar-Lev takes such care to depict them as complex, foible-laden individuals who can't be pegged either good or bad is one of the great strengths of this intriguing and provocative documentary."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 14) of 14 OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh Page   1