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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
For sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
80
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Delivers more suspense than a tombful of mummies.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Robin Rauzi
Nimbly documents the rise and fall of a Web company through its charismatic leaders.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
Astute and entertaining documentary.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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