Via his subject’s idiosyncracies – VanDyke is a habitual hand-washer and diagnosed OCD-ite – Curry starts to weave a subtle, but nonetheless eloquent critique not just of one man's compulsions, but a culture's.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
His film is an essential, fascinating critique—and product—of our ''look at me'' culture.
In abandoning a more vigorous discussion of class and race-based senses of entitlement, Marshall Curry reveals his goals to be less critical or rigid than passively honorific.
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Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
Matthew VanDyke, Point and Shoot's hero/subject, can't forget the mediated, imitative nature of his adventures even when he has dedicated himself to a grand cause.
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RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams
RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams
Point and Shoot consequently feels like a film made by a storyteller — not a journalist — who doesn't know he can ask follow-up questions.