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75Provides an untidy and frustrating but never boring look at his life and times.
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75Unashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture.
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Too bad the movie about him is just as flawed.
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63Feels more like a music video than a serious look back at a time, a place and a very smart, funny and unconventional man.
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63A film dealing fully with Hoffman's final years might have had a lot more punch.
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63An earnest but ultimately scattered effort to put Yippie radical Abbie Hoffman's best foot posthumously forward.
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60It's a compelling story, and very of its tumultuous time.
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58Scrappy and rambling and overly earnest.
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50An admiring but overly simplified walk down memory lane.
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50Vincent D'Onofrio does capture Hoffman's charisma and nuttiness - and he's the only reason to resist the temptation to skip this exasperating movie.
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50Won't work until the film comes out on video.
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50It's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings.
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50Throws in a lot of detail but withholds the real secrets of Abbie Hoffman. His life was no fairy tale. Why should it be filmed to end like one?
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50Not quite Abbie.
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50There might have been a better, more involving method of telling Hoffman's story, but it is expressed with a firm sense of commitment to accuracy and authenticity.
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45Never better than middling, despite its best intentions.
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40Likable but muddled screen biography.
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40It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string.
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30Bizarrely depressing.
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30A valiant but seriously flawed attempt to belie the notion that if you remember what you did in the '60s, you weren't there.
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30Although Steal This Movie isn't worth the price of admission, it is worth sneaking in to see D'Onofrio and Garofalo's splendid performances.
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25This superficial treatment makes so many dubious decisions - oversimplifying issues, for instance, so there'll be more time for high-flying emotion - that 1960s veterans may be moved to protest rather than praise.
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20Comes across as artificial.
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10The disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent.
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10At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history.
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10Misshapen and obfuscating biopic.