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  • Summary: A documentary which examines the life of the HIV-positive leader of the Atlanta band Smoke.
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  1. 90
    As ethereal, moving, and uncompromising as its subject.
  2. It's the hypnotic long-form music video Smoke never got to make.
  3. 58
    As a portrait of a man barely qualifying for a cinematic portrait, Benjamin Smoke is a trifle, but when Sillen and Cohen turn their cameras on the weedy, workaday, hellhole America that Benjamin calls home, the movie comes alive.

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