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59 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

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  • Summary: This documentary paints a dazzling portrait of the emergence of cocaine and the accompanying cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth. (Magnolia Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: K.J. Doughton
    90
    Traveling faster than a fat line of blow snorted from mirror to nose, Cocaine Cowboys is all rush and no crash.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    60
    The story is fascinating, if a little overlong.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    30
    Cocaine Cowboys is a tabloid headline, a movie as oppressive and inarticulate as the lives it represents.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. DianeH.
    9
    I just had moved to Tampa, FL, in 1977. I found this documentary fascinating AND appropriately adrenalin raising. This look at the drug cultures' dollars rebuild of Miami was such an 'of course' but i'd not realized the massive dimensions of it all. Right under our noses. And then Hollywood moved in. Now there's some kind of a cultural statement in that.… Expand
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  2. Enrique
    9
    An excellent documentary. Its strong statements makes it a hard to take movie for general audiences. A must see!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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