Super Size Me

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A deliciously amusing socio-culinary prank.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
I don't usually make recommendations of this kind, but if you or your kids have gone to a burger joint in the last few weeks, you really do need to see this movie.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
A movie every American should see, although parts of it are close to unwatchable - notably an operating room sequence in which a pair of surgeons performs a gastric bypass, or "obesity surgery," as they like to call it, on a dangerously overweight patient.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It’s one of the blackest comedies to hit the screen since Dr. Strangelove. Spurlock proves himself a supersize talent; he makes you choke on every laugh.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Riveting and darkly comic Super Size Me is a whip-smart documentary.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Super Size Me is an anti-junk-food screed that manages to entertain even as it informs and alarms.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Super-entertaining, super-disgusting documentary.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Dennis Lim
Sometimes exerts the gross-out fascination of reality TV's muckier specimens--its arc suggests a slow-motion "Fear Factor," or "Extreme Makeover" in reverse.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
This is a compelling cautionary tale hot-wired to your gag reflex.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This is the documentary that caused a sensation at Sundance 2004 and allegedly inspired McDonald's to discontinue its "super size" promotions as a preemptive measure.Read Full Review »
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