"Avoiding exposition, interviews and even a clearly discernible point of view, Wiseman's films belong to the documentary vanguard of the 1960s; he has been grouped with the Maysles brothers, D.A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock as pioneering practitioners of so-called cinéma vérité. Wiseman, for his part, dismisses the tag as a 'pompous French term.' He prefers 'reality fiction,' a label that acknowledges the inherent contradictions of the process."
Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times assesses Frederick Wiseman as the filmmaker releases his documentaries on DVD.
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