MixedThe Independent (UK)\"The problem is that We Did OK, Kid is hesitant to really discuss his film career much at all. Some of the passages about Hopkins’s personal life – his complicated and sometimes damaging relationship with his working-class father, the bullying he suffered at the hands of his peers, the breakdown of two of his marriages, his addiction to alcohol and his now-longstanding sobriety – are moving and insightful...In moments like these, the book can be wrenching ... you can’t help but feel slightly short-changed at the lack of real, tangible insights into his work. His is a career that deserves depth – and demands more than what this book delivers.\
Barbra Streisand
MixedIndependent (UK)A heifer of a read. The prose throughout is clean and unfussy, though seldom chatty. With the extra girth comes weightier expectations, and while the book obviously holds deep significance to its author – Streisand has been working on the memoir for a quarter of a century – this is rarely more profound or revealing than other far shorter celeb-penned books out this year ... The thousand-odd pages...narrate the life of a woman whose facial features could not have been more irrelevant to her gifts. Perhaps that’s ultimately the thing with My Name is Barbra: there’s no real way of translating Streisand’s captivating screen power to print. Even with 1,000 words more, I don’t think you could manage it.
