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  • Summary: I AM, a probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents Tom Shadyac’s first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners, with such successful titles as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” and “Biar,” and “Bruce Almighty” to his credit. I AM recounts what happened to the filmmaker after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged a changed man. Disillusioned with life on the A-list, he sold his house, moved to a mobile home community, and decided to start life anew. (Shady Acres Entertainment)… Collapse

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    Apr 29, 2011
    75
    Although the choice of interviewees skews the movie in a New Age-y direction, there's less pseudoscience and more heart than in the kindred documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Apr 21, 2011
    50
    Give Shadyac credit: He sells his Pasadena mansion, starts teaching college and moves into a mobile home (in Malibu, it's true). Now he offers us this hopeful if somewhat undigested cut of his findings, in a film as watchable as a really good TV commercial, and just as deep.
  3. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    May 27, 2011
    50
    The world is a whole lot more complex than Shadyac seems to realize. If all we need is love, wouldn't we all still be wearing tie-dyed shirts and headbands?
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Mark Jenkins
    Mar 24, 2011
    38
    While I Am has its boogeymen - especially the rich, the racist and the ultra-competitive - Shadyac implicates himself whenever possible.

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    The film lacks quality, true actors, and a decent motive. I AM not going to recommend this to anyone with a brain. It seems that director Tom Shadyac should probably stay out of the documentary film industry.… Expand

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