Paul Reubens's death in 2023 hit me hard and continues to hit me hard, so it's nice to have this documentary produced in his final years that feels like he's speaking to us directly from beyond the grave. As a private person, he has tried to control every aspect of his story and we are granted access to parts of his life that haven't been revealed before. It recontextualizes his entire career through his own words. Paul is very self-aware of the camera and how he comes across, and he tends to play with our perception of that. I was a little disappointed at how it glosses over the latter half of his life and leaves us with more questions than answers, but it's nice we got anything at all before his tragic and untimely passing, in order to give some much-needed closure.
3 bags of tricks out of 5
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