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Better Living Through Circuitry
Seventh Art Releasing
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Jason Bentley,
Frankie Bones,
and
Carl Cox
Documentary about the rave phenomenon, going deeper than you'll want to go unless you are already a fan of electronic dance music.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jon Reiss
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 21, 2000
Video: November 21, 2000
Theatrical: May 26, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
85 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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90
Chicago Reader
Ted Shen
It's as slick as anything you might find on the Discovery Channel, and the snippets of 3-D computer animation are too cool for words.

90
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
Circuitry plugs into the underground world of raves. The scene, complete with drugs and its own culture, is blissfully examined in a documentary that speaks the language of its youthful generation.

80
LA Weekly
John Payne
Succeeds in articulating the fluid values and constituent parts of the "culture" even as that culture's subjects are at best mildly articulate.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Fascinating but repetitious, Better Living Through Circuitry nevertheless does a good job describing the scene.
80
Salon.com
Jeff Stark
In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Niva Chonin
It's the content that makes this documentary fly. The documentary's only stumbling point is its dearth of historical context.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Bruce Fretts
It's got a good beat, you can dance to it.

70
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Questions loom heavily over this entertaining but not-too-deep film, making it more a commercial than real exploration.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Intelligent and engaging, this documentary about rave culture overcomes the challenge inherent in its subject; rave's appeal is by nature nonanalytical and experiential, while documentary films play to the intellectual observer.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The movie is essentially pro-Ecstasy. No matter how much the D.J.'s may claim that their electronic sounds produce the euphoria of a good rave, the movie clearly implies that Ecstasy is the key that unlocks it all.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
While there is a faithful following of kids, it just never seems as exciting or sad or emotional -- or as ablaze with personalities -- as what has gone before.

67
Mr. Showbiz
Andrew Strickman
Jon Reiss' compelling documentary on the people, music, and social constructs of dance culture, may perhaps provide some needed balance to the mass media attention.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Suffers from a surplus of interviews and information that imbue it with a vague sense of overkill.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Fans likely to rave about Living.

50
Miami Herald
Cary Darling
While Circuitry has its pleasures, it's not as intelligent as "Modulations," a previous documentary on the subject, and its focus is a bit skewed.
38
New York Post
Hannah Brown
It's not much fun to watch people go to raves. And it's even less fun to listen to people talk about how much fun it is to go to raves.

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