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Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: This documentary is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. (First Run Features)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 21
  2. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Deeply personal, morally alert, and highly entertaining.
  2. Bright Leaves' takes on a sizable foe -- in this case, big tobacco -- but with such grace and wit that his message never seems medicinal.
  3. 50
    Results in a weightless film. Worse still, McElwee's languid tone makes his journey lack conviction.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 1 out of 1

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