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  • 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)

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  1. Positive: 20 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Deeply personal, morally alert, and highly entertaining.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    McElwee fans will welcome back the wonderful Charleen, his former teacher and lifelong friend, older and mellower but as beguiling and free-spirited as ever.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    This rich, complex and surprisingly entertaining film also becomes a meditation on filmmaking and the parallels McElwee finds between cinema and, of all things, smoking.
  4. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Marta Barber
    50
    Results in a weightless film. Worse still, McElwee's languid tone makes his journey lack conviction.

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