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67 out of 100

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  • Summary: Meet Jack, Eric, Bill, Roberta, and Harvey -- five cinemaniacs whose viewing habits make regular old cinephiles look like simple recreational moviegoers. (Tribeca Film Festival)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    You may become a cinemaniac yourself after sitting through this beauty.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    88
    What Christlieb and Kijak do so well is keeping these folks from not seeming like loons.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Their mania might be funny if it weren't so creepy.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. MetteT.
    10
    this was my favorite film at Göteborg Film Festival a few years ago and i have seen it again since...i think if you look for 'reasons' you will find them...do you need everythign explained to you and served on a platter - i think this pop-psychology attitude is very simplistic - the characters are revealed beautifully through the detail of their crazy lives - they are endearing, revealing and ultimately very human. i feel sad for you to miss the whole point of the film! and the end, this is the best, smartest ending of all. The reflexive quality of showing filmbuffs a film of themselves, yes, this is a very smart reference to jean Rouch i think, but wow, it made me love it all the more.… Expand
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  2. LowellHighschool
    0
    What a bore. The directors I believe got lost and never found what they were looking, and that is reasoning for why these people have an obbsesion with movies. Besides the movie has no direction and in the end goes no where .… Expand
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