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Bittersweet Motel
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47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    It's like Woodstock without the mud, and it leaves you feeling clean.
  2. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    A crafty, sometimes craven, but hardly worshipful snapshot of an unlikely candidate for biggest rock act on earth.
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  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Michael Evans
    75
    Makes a fine primer on one of today's most intriguingly creative and surreptitiously popular acts.
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  4. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    67
    Manages to capture the essence of one of the world's most surprising success stories.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Dan Aquilante
    63
    Fans will love this quick flick by director Todd Phillips, but it better serves as an introduction for the uninitiated.
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  6. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Richard Harrington
    60
    You don't have to be a Phishead to enjoy Bittersweet Motel.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Greg Kot
    50
    A documentary that will likely leave Phish diehards hankering for more, and everybody else still wondering what all the fuss is about.
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  8. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Dan DeLuca
    50
    It falls short of its tie-dye target.
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  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: James Sullivan
    50
    There are just enough revelatory moments to recommend the movie.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Clearly Phish's appeal is fundamentally experiential, and the experience doesn't lend itself to being captured on film.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    50
    As homey as old sweats.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    Well-made if not particularly insightful docu should be catnip to Phishheads, while the previously unconverted are likely to stay that way.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    40
    Never really gets across the essence of who the band members are and why they inspire such fidelity.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Hochman
    40
    A film without a framework, without a skeleton--a Phish philet, if you will.
  15. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    40
    None of these guys has much interesting to say.
  16. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    38
    Little more than an electronic press kit for the band, produced for the benefit of its fans.
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  17. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    Bland, unrevealing.
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