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62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    88
    An entertaining, occasionally illuminating autodocumentary.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    A documentary made with rigor, humor and no small amount of honest emotion.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    For a film devoted to celebrating intimacy and the breaking down of emotional barriers, Pop and Me is oddly withholding of information about the travelers.
  4. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    70
    A satisfying, sentimental trip.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    70
    The film quickly becomes a vortex of father-son bonding and rivalry, and what could have been a mere travelogue becomes a bumpy exploration of male identity and communication.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    67
    Everybody likes to watch the messy guts-stuff of other peoples' lives, if only because we know then we're not alone in our weird ways.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    A funny, perceptive and seductively engaging movie.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    60
    Lots of men cry lots of tears in this supremely self-indulgent, supremely moving documentary about making a documentary.
  9. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Petrakis
    50
    The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    50
    The most revelatory moment is provided not by the spectacle of the Roes clinging to each other on a bungee cord, but by Julian Lennon, who pops up on the beach in Monaco to give a terse evaluation of his father.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Hanna Brown
    38
    A self-indulgent chronicle of Chris Roe's whiny power struggle with his father over where to eat dinner in various exotic locales.
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