Regarding Susan Sontag

While it would be easy to create a sterilized portrait of the accomplished intellectual, Kates refrains from doing so.

If you take a less passive approach to the film and connect the multiple dots Kates and co-writer John Haptas have positioned through the 105-minute film, you'll begin to understand what made [Sontag] tick.

This... makes for a highly watchable film.

As Kates's documentary makes clear, few authors seized as fully the range of experience, intellectual and physical, that the writing life allowed, and used it to help with the crucial naming of their world.