Wednesday, July 18, 2018

In HBO’s doc Come Inside My Mind, Robin Williams bares it all

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review was originally posted after the film’s premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. It has been updated to reflect the film’s HBO release.

Viewers can be forgiven for smirking at the seeming double entendre in the title of Marina Zenovich’s HBO documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind. It’s not just that we live in an age of off-color call-and-response, where “That’s what s/he said” and “69? Nice” have become conversational reflexes. It’s just natural to assume that any seeming vulgarity in Williams’ humor is entirely intentional, given how often his routines centered around genitals and their...

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