Halston

"When it reverts to conventional documentary storytelling... "Halston" is thrilling stuff for fashion nerds, as well as a poignant character study of a misfit ultimately undone by his excessive hunger to prove himself."

"The pictures, footage, biography, news and gossip are the opposite of a Halston dress - unruly, busy, fussed over. But they come at you with an energy that feels substantial."

"The archive clips suggest Halston is a role Richard E Grant was born to play: the designer had a long-limbed loucheness, grandiose affectations and put-on accent, along with a fierce perfectionism."

"Ignore the film's foolish framing device with Tavi Gevinson playing fashion detective and a fascinating portrait emerges of Halston as a flawed icon whose designs captured an era and still take your breath away."

"Unfortunately, just as Halston did in life, this documentary avoids delving deeply into the mysterious man."

"Some dead weight in the framing flourishes, but still an entertaining, well-researched documentary."

"A roller coaster of fabulousness and folly only marginally compromised by its excessive length and fussy structural gimmicks."