‘Martha’ Review: Martha Stewart Unplugged In Candid And Surprising Tell-All Netflix Documentary
deadline.comWhen I set out to see R.J. Cutler‘s new documentary, Martha, quite frankly I wasn’t focusing on it other than just another screening I had, and that it would be all about Martha Stewart.
So I expected it would be mostly gardening, cooking, and setting the perfect dinner party table. Boy was I ever wrong, happily so, because this is simply a riveting, candid, and surprisingly warts-and-all look at the life and times of Stewart, someone very much in the public eye for much of her career, but until now guarding the image and the person behind what we thought we knew about her.
I probably shouldn’t have been surprised, because Cutler, based on his significant body of work is a filmmaker who generally digs deep and manages to present portraits of his subjects that haven’t been seen before.
His docus on Anna Wintour, Billie Eilish, and John Belushi are proof of that, and his innovative and startling look at Marlon Brando based on a treasure trove of never-before-heard cassette tapes, Listen To Me Marlon, was also a knockout.
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