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  • “One of the best movies of the year”

    New York Times

  • “One of the best movies of the year”

    Los Angeles Times

  • “One of the best movies of the year”

    New Yorker

  • “One of the best movies of the year”

    TIME

  • “One of the best movies of the year”

    Esquire

  • “One of the best movies of the year”

    LA Weekly

  • ★★★★★ “the greatest jazz documentary since Let’s Get Lost… SPELLBINDING, MERCURIAL, HALLUCINATORY, EXUBERANT, TRAGIC…”

    Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian (5/5 stars)

  • “a delicate human drama about love, ambition and the glories of music.”

    A.O. Scott, New York Times

  • “AN EXCEPTIONAL FILM… USING A DAZZLING BLEND OF CINEMATIC TOOLS, AURAL AS WELL AS VISUAL, COLLIN RECREATES BOTH INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND AN ENTIRE WORLD.

  • AS A SLICE OF RECOVERED AND ILLUMINATED TIME, “I CALLED HIM MORGAN” HAS FEW PEERS…”

    Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

  • “Kasper Collin shows a masterful grasp of non-fiction form”

    Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

  • “Kasper Collin's brilliant film plays like first-rate drama”

    Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

  • “Magic. The movie is like a record you could spin again and again.”

    David Edelstein, New York Magazine

  • “a flat-out sublime doc”

    Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed

  • “Collin's exquisitely haunted meditation...”

    Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

  • “Musicians sometimes paraphrase Debussy, or one another, in saying that music is the silence between the notes...

  • “I Called Him Morgan” has it all—the notes and the silence, plus the music of spoken language, pitched in rueful tones of recollection.”

    Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

  • “see this instant classic”

    Ben Ratliff, Esquire

  • “one of the most unconventional, spellbinding music-related documentaries ever made.”

    Gary Giddins, Telluride Film Festival

  • “From the story of one complex relationship, Collin builds a resonant portrait of an enduringly influential scene and era.”

    Richard Brody, New Yorker

  • “Ultimately, Collin’s film is one of forgiveness. That’s not the usual way great tragedies end”

    G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

  • “A visual and textural triumph... IN COMPLETE SYMPATHY WITH THE MOST WISTFUL CUTS OF ITS SUBJECT’S DISCOGRAPHY”

    Guy Lodge, Variety

  • “The best documentary of the year. director Kasper Collin’s masterwork”

    Nick Schager, Esquire

  • "Collin’s exceptional, atmospheric film"

    David Jenkins, Little White Lies

  • “Kasper Collin's superb documentary”

    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine

  • ★★★★ “music survives even when love kills.”

    Huffington Post (4/4 stars)

  • “Watching Kasper Collin’s ‘I Called Him Morgan’ is a deeply sensory experience.”

    Caitlin Love, The Paris Review

  • “The life and death of trumpeter Lee Morgan, seen through the eyes of his wife who shot and killed him”

    Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice

  • “those closest to Lee admit on camera that, after hating Helen for so long afterward, they found themselves ultimately forgiving her years later”

    Tim Grierson , Paste Magazine

  • “Collin imbues this documentary with an ambiguous, unsettlingly empathetic emotional force.”

    Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

  • “Collin’s remarkable new film... embraces ambiguousness of story”

    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor

  • »Kasper Collin's transfixing documentary… recognizes the jazzy spirit of Lee and Helen's doomed romance—and, also, the riffing-our-way-forward nature of life itself.”

    Nick Schager, Esquire

  • “an artful marriage of absences and presences. It begins and ends with snow falling on Manhattan, the city glistening but tantalizing out of reach. Just like Lee Morgan."

    Sight & Sound, Sukhdev Sandhu

  • “The fantastic cinematography by Bradford Young makes this the rare documentary that must be seen on a big screen”

    Odie Henderson, RogerEbert.com

  • “Feels like an Oscar Winner for Best Documentary Feature just waiting to happen”

    Todd VanDerWerff, vox.com

  • “Kasper Collin’s extraordinary film I Called Him Morgan”

    Adam Shatz, The Paris Review

  • “There's no shortage of poignant moments in I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin's mesmerizing new documentary”

    Nate Chinen, NPR

  • “Kasper Collin shows a masterful grasp of non-fiction form”

    Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

  • “hooks you from the first moments and glides effortlessly toward an emotionally impacting and enigmatic conclusion.”

    Tony Hinds, The Film Stage

  • “Watch I Called Him Morgan, and you will sit enraptured. An exceptional documentary. Haunting.”

    Dwight Brown, Huffington Post

  • “Collin pieces a long-standing mystery together like a very moody jazz detective story”

    Jason Solomons

  • “Entrancing… imbued with suspence, even if the outcome is known from the outset”

    Sarah Ward, Screendaily

  • “A dexterous work of fusion: it’s jazz history meets true crime”

    José Teodoro, Cinema Scope

  • “Has the unmistakable feeling of joyful lives lived to the full”

    Derek Walmsley, The Wire Magazine

  • “Collin's immersive work luxuriates in mood and texture”

    Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice

  • “brilliant, melancholy, and soulful doc”

    Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker Magazine

  • “You don't have to love jazz to be drawn into this remarkable story”

    Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com

  • “a celebration of these two lives and the era of music that both created and destroyed them.”

    Gary Garrison, The Playlist

  • “THE ELEGANT MELANCHOLY OF THE FILM’S VISUALS, IN COMPLETE SYMPATHY WITH THE MOST WISTFUL CUTS OF ITS SUBJECT’S DISCOGRAPHY... BURNISHES BOTH THE INFORMATION WE HAVE AND THE GAPS IN IT.”

    Guy Lodge, Variety

  • ★★★★★ “the greatest jazz documentary since Let’s Get Lost…”

    Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian (5/5 stars)