Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A wonderfully crafted documentary about a most unusual long-term relationship

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 8, 2009

A great, revealing documentary; one of the best films released in 2008

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 27, 2009

The documentary, made after Isherwood's death and with Bachardy's enthusiastic participation, is as much a love story as a chronicle of Bachardy's maturation into a man and an artist.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2008

Long before anyone was talking about gay marriage, that's what Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy had

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 19, 2008

Isherwood was the far more interesting subject, but Chris & Don is all about Bachardy -- an observation that feels like opportunism more than love story.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 1, 2008

Despite an age difference of 30 years, their connection was immediately electric; their first kiss, the story goes, broke a window.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2008

Surprisingly, this 2007 documentary about their 34-year relationship becomes more engrossing as its focus shifts from Isherwood to Bachardy...

Full Review | Aug 1, 2008

It's a sentimental and loving picture, playing out as a leisurely cocktail-hour stroll through an enchanting life.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 31, 2008

There's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emotional relationship that lasts as long as

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2008

A charming, loving portrait electrified by the inclusion of lots of terrific home movie footage. These relics of gay history are worth the rest of the movie.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2008

With delectable-looking home movies of the couple's travels in California and Europe, Chris and Don offers an intimate portrayal of a passionate, enduring association, as well as a social history of postwar life.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2008

Regardless of whether you recognize the names of Christopher Isherwood or Don Bachardy, this masterful documentary draws you into the men's lives like a star-studded bedtime tale.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2008

Santi and Mascara are right to call their film A Love Story, because this is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 18, 2008

It's an extraordinary film that gay audiences will find particularly salient, no doubt, yet audiences with an affinity for the writings of Isherwood or nostalgia for the golden age of Hollywood may find it intriguing as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2008

A charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer romance between Isherwood and Bachardy.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2008

The subtitle of the film is 'A Love Story.' The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2008

I must say, this is a pricelessly moving documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2008