PositiveThe Telegraph (UK)Gives us a thorough account of Pacino’s upbringing and early career, which looms larger in his imagination the further it recedes in time. At the end he’s good at evoking memories that haunt him ... As for happiness later in life, he’s both introspective and evasive.
Elliot Page
PositiveThe Telegraph (UK)Pageboy has not been written to placate those with the above views, or win over \'those with massive platforms who have attacked and ridiculed me.\' The book puts up a fight, instead, against the sheer exhaustion of being in such a position: \'When your existence is constantly debated and denied, it sucks you dry\' ... This memoir may be ragged at times, with some eccentric stabs at poetic prose that don’t always come off, but that’s largely to its benefit: it doesn’t feel like the smoothed-over result of cautious editing, \'as told to\' anyone but Page himself. Such rawness, as a document of his life story, only makes it all the more singular.
