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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...an earnest, lumpy macramé of a personal nonfiction project... Love is all you need, people! It's time to downsize and skip the private jet!" (Read the full review...) 93 words, 03/11/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: MODERATE (cg) "...often absurd and never less than giddy with uplift, but that's not to say it's bad. I watched with an incredulous delight, and at the end, I liked Tom Shadyac quite a lot." (Read the full review...) 918 words, 04/22/11
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: MODERATE "...a whirlwind tour of the world of big and not-so-big ideas.... But as the ideas fly by, your patience may begin to fray.... after a while everyone starts to sound the same..." (Read the full review...) 310 words, 03/18/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "...when Shadyac returns to talk about himself we're left wondering how Desmond Tutu wound up in this vanity project in the first place." (Read the full review...) 151 words, 03/18/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: MODERATE "What lifts the film above its dubious boilerplate assemblage of talking heads and archival images is Shadyac himself.... veers dangerously close to cockeyed New Age create-your-reality positivity." (Read the full review...) 407 words, 03/11/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "A jumble of pseudoscientific New Age gobbledygook..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 03/18/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "...often absurd and never less than giddy with uplift, but that's not to say it's bad. I watched with an incredulous delight, and at the end, I liked Tom Shadyac quite a lot." (Read the full review...) 918 words, 04/22/11 Brian Miller, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky are among the boldface-name philosophers interviewed, but their voices are soon drowned out by a torrent of pseudoscience..." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 03/16/11
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "The scientists Shadyac encounters may be involved in serious work; from his movie, it's impossible to tell.... 'I Am' is just a rich guy's self-indulgence." (Read the full review...) 453 words, 03/25/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "Did I enjoy Shadyac's film? Very much. Do I think he made many of his points more accessibly and entertainingly in 'Bruce Almighty?' You bet." (Read the full review...) 565 words, 04/29/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...an Oprah-endorsed mashup of thought-provoking ideas and metaphysical mumbo jumbo that is about how every living thing is 'connected.' " (Read the full review...) 838 words, 05/06/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...strongest when it notes that living things that take just what they need tend to thrive, while gluttony has dire consequences.... a jolt of uplift and optimism..." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 04/22/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Pointing a camera at a dozen academics and authors might be good for Shadyac's sense of well-being, but, even at 79 minutes, it's trying for the keister." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 04/01/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: POOR (cg) "Shadyac seems pleasant and sincere... but as you watch his film, you may well become a doubter." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 03/18/11 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "For some, this sort of thinking is a much-needed revolution in human consciousness. For others, it's little more than New Age platitudes and questionable science." (Read the full review...) 370 words, 03/04/11 John Hartl, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a rare feel-good documentary that earns its somewhat cockeyed optimism.... celebrates the idea that a message movie can be funny and irrepressibly enthusiastic." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 02/25/11 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: MODERATE (cg) "Yet another slog through feel-good quasi-science... If you're looking for actual solutions to global problems, rather than ways to feel better about them, 'I Am' will be a frustrating experience." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 02/18/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the pithy point of this disarming documentary: We are one." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 04/29/11
Brian Miller, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky are among the boldface-name philosophers interviewed, but their voices are soon drowned out by a torrent of pseudoscience..." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 03/16/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...the 'new' Shadyac is just as goofy and featherweight as the old Hollywood hack.... Spoiler: Shadyac eventually discovers that the secret of life is Love." (Read the full review...) 135 words, 03/31/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "...the documentary equivalent of a 'Co-Exist' bumper sticker, 79 minutes of happy talk, Koyaanisqatsi-style slow-motion stock footage, and false uplift..." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 03/10/11 Andrew Schenker, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...a dreadful piece of filmmaking, an essayistic hodgepodge of repetitious declarations of mankind's interconnectedness, talking heads spouting New Age-y pseudoscience..." (Read the full review...) 567 words, 03/05/11
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: MODERATE "...a whirlwind tour of the world of big and not-so-big ideas.... But as the ideas fly by, your patience may begin to fray.... after a while everyone starts to sound the same..." (Read the full review...) 310 words, 03/18/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "What lifts the film above its dubious boilerplate assemblage of talking heads and archival images is Shadyac himself.... veers dangerously close to cockeyed New Age create-your-reality positivity." (Read the full review...) 407 words, 03/11/11
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "...a surprising philosophical inquiry-cum-documentary from, of all people, Tom Shadyac... starts off as a curio by a Hollywood insider but winds up making an awful lot of sense -- with a few caveats." (Read the full review...) 878 words, 03/09/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "What lifts the film above its dubious boilerplate assemblage of talking heads and archival images is Shadyac himself.... veers dangerously close to cockeyed New Age create-your-reality positivity." (Read the full review...) 407 words, 03/11/11 Rachel Saltz, New York Times: MODERATE "...a whirlwind tour of the world of big and not-so-big ideas.... But as the ideas fly by, your patience may begin to fray.... after a while everyone starts to sound the same..." (Read the full review...) 310 words, 03/18/11
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