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Examined Life
Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Slovenian-born writer-teacher Slavoj Zizek, narrator of the movie "A Pervert's Guide to the Cinema," provides the most entertainment.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    By conducting her conversations in public spaces, and removing her interlocutors from desks and offices and book-lined studies and other appurtenances of intellectual authority, Taylor introduces a degree of playfulness and unpredictability that becomes the movie's M.O.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    70
    Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor's engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Rob Nelson
    70
    Stimulating film, enlivened by creative location shooting.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    Over the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    60
    It won't be everybody's idea of entertainment but the heady documentary "Examined Life" provides a sound forum for an influential cross-section of professional thinkers to theorize on such weighty topics as life and death, politics, the environment and disabilities.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    60
    A modest, intermittently engaging film.
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