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Startup.com
Artisan Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language
Starring
Tom Herman,
and
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman
Acclaimed documentary team Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker and newcomer Jehane Noujaim take a behind-the-scenes look at the volatile start-up phenomenon, chronicling the turbulent development of govWorks.com, an award-winning Internet site that facilitates interaction between local government, citizens and businesses. (Artisan Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Chris Hegedus
Jehane Noujaim
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 18, 2001
Video: September 18, 2001
Theatrical: May 11, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
For sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year.

100
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
The film ends with a surprisingly upbeat coda. But Startup.com leaves us with a sense that our heroes' idealism will be forever lost.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A thrillingly, thoroughly wonderful film.
88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The coolest film in town offers industrial espionage, power struggles, thwarted romance, betrayal and suspense - and best of all, it's true.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
This small story that tells the much bigger story of the New Economy's bubble and burst is less a documentary than it is breaking news.
88
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Combining the immediacy of the Internet and the wise perspective of history, Startup.com proves that investing in real-life drama can reap rich dividends.

83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
With no easy heroes or villains, Startup.com can be a Rorschach test for viewers.

80
Los Angeles Times
Robin Rauzi
Nimbly documents the rise and fall of a Web company through its charismatic leaders.

80
LA Weekly
Judith Lewis
Startup.com goes from being a mildly interesting true story to a ripping good train wreck in the making.

80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It also has heart and soul, two commodities all too often in short supply in the field of garden-variety cinema verite.

80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Moves slowly and grimly toward the moment that for the audience is the most engrossing though filled with dread: when things begin to unravel and the participants are no longer aware of the cameras. That is when your shoulders tense and you lean toward the screen.

80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Astute and entertaining documentary.

80
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Has all the hallmarks of a Pennebaker production. The editing is seamless, the drama builds throughout, and the arc of the central character is as shapely as in a Hollywood fiction.

80
Film.com
Sean Means
The result is a movie that turns the financial phenomenon of Web startups -- the crazy kids with ideas, and the crazier bankers with more money than sense -- into a moving human drama.

80
Time
Richard Schickel
This gripping documentary doesn't exactly say what went wrong, but the pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening.

80
Variety
David Rooney
Topical film, which goes beyond its potentially dry diet of facts to incorporate the juicy human drama of Machiavellian manipulations, ambition, torn loyalties and crushing betrayal.

80
Salon.com
Jeff Stark
A story about risk, about hubris, about youth, about the old way and the new way, and about what happens when you trade everything for something that really isn't there.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Delivers more suspense than a tombful of mummies.

80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Deep and textured drama.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As an inside view of the bursting of the Internet bubble, Startup.com is definitive.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
If nothing else, Startup.com is a pointed reminder that mixing business and friendship never, ever works.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An unforgettable portrait of a testosterone-driven era.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
A cautionary tale very well-told.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
An eye-opening documentary.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The giddy excitement of Startup.com comes from feeling as if you're inside the bubble as it soars into the stratosphere - and pops.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Always absorbing.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Some of the simplest shots give you the full picture of the price these guys paid for their dreams.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The story of the business is historically interesting, but the story of a friendship tested to the breaking point is timeless.

60
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
There's something a bit condescending about how the movie devolves into a falling-out-between-friends scenario, as if the only way our attention could be held by this subculture were if it was presented to us sentimentally.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
Some people are finding it difficult to live with the idea that Kaleil could put his employees through hell, lose $60 million of other people's money, and wind up a movie star.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The filmmakers no doubt had a hell of a time whittling the material down; unfortunately, what they came up with was something long on the mundaneness of GovWorks.com and short on the personalities behind it.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
For a general audience the entertainment factor is quite low. The project may best serve us not on the screen, but in a time capsule.


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