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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.
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90It'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.
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80In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning.
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80Succeeds in articulating the fluid values and constituent parts of the "culture" even as that culture's subjects are at best mildly articulate.
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80Fascinating but repetitious, Better Living Through Circuitry nevertheless does a good job describing the scene.
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It's the content that makes this documentary fly. The documentary's only stumbling point is its dearth of historical context.
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75It's got a good beat, you can dance to it.
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70Intelligent 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.
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70Questions loom heavily over this entertaining but not-too-deep film, making it more a commercial than real exploration.
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70The 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.
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67Jon Reiss' compelling documentary on the people, music, and social constructs of dance culture, may perhaps provide some needed balance to the mass media attention.
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67Suffers from a surplus of interviews and information that imbue it with a vague sense of overkill.
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67While 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.
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63Fans likely to rave about Living.
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50While Circuitry has its pleasures, it's not as intelligent as "Modulations," a previous documentary on the subject, and its focus is a bit skewed.
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38It'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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Mike8Interesting throughout, with the occasional fascinating gem.