Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Mandi Bierly
The four-part docuseries begins with ''The Memory Loss Tapes,'' a moving look at the disease's progression through seven patients at various stages. It's not a question of if you'll cry, it's how soon. |
| 100 |
Newsday Verne Gay
What's here is pitch-perfect - the fear, loss, emotional devastation and, peculiar to this disease, silence. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
The Alzheimer’s Project is an ambitious, disturbing, emotionally fraught and carefully optimistic four-part documentary exploring virtually every angle of Alzheimer's disease that can be explored on television |
| 80 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
Thankfully, while the reckoning of "The Memory Loss Tapes" is probably necessary, the other documentaries in the series are a little more hopeful. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The Alzheimer's Project, a four-part series that began with two episodes focused on harrowing descriptions of the disease, concludes on a hopeful note with two more outlining research advances. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The zeal and dedication of researchers is inspiring, and so are the patients and caregivers who struggle with the disease everyday, but over all, The Alzheimer’s Project celebrates hope at the expense of caution. |
| 70 |
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
In many respects, HBO's The Alzheimer's Project is nearly identical to the Emmy-winning PBS Alzheimer's presentation, "The Forgetting," which was first broadcast in 2004 and updated last year. |
| 60 |
Variety Brian Lowry
It's perhaps inevitable that this project will range from sobering and moving to, at times, feeling a bit too much like homework. |
| 60 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The Alzheimer's Project is hard to watch. It's just not as hard as the disease it examines. |
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Hollywood Reporter Randee Dawn
We like noble efforts. But we tend to like them better on television when they're accompanied by a sense of pacing and entertainment value. (If things were otherwise, PBS would rule the universe.) In this case, a few more spoonfuls of sugar might have helped this medicine go down. |
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