Addiction Incorporated
Variance Films | Release Date: December 14, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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12
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80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisDec 13, 2011
Straight-shooting, hard-hitting and fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, Addiction Incorporated would be almost too exhausting to watch were it not for the folksy charm of its star witness. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMar 23, 2012
While it's satisfying to see fat cats tamed by science and an enraged public, the movie misses the opportunity to sustain the pressure. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeLoren KingFeb 23, 2012
Once it finds its footing in old-fashioned journalism, the film packs a wallop. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFeb 8, 2012
It's an effective film, livened with animated rats, never boring. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoJan 19, 2012
The film's subject, a whistle-blowing research scientist who played a key role in the fight to regulate tobacco, deserves to be celebrated. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoDec 16, 2011
Addiction Incorporated delivers a hard kick in the butts to the tobacco industry. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderBen SachsFeb 9, 2012
The interviewees are good storytellers--particularly the eccentric research scientists who tested the effects of nicotine on rats in the early 80s--and the editing keeps their stories moving at a lively pace. Read full review
70
NPRMark JenkinsDec 16, 2011
DeNoble aside, Addiction Incorporated finds most of its heroes in Congress, the White House and federal agencies. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyDec 13, 2011
Producer Charles Evans Jr.'s directorial debut finds an engrossing suspense angle in the involvement of Victor DeNoble, an idealistic scientist-turned-whistleblower whose suppressed corporate research became the bombshell catalyst in that struggle. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonDec 13, 2011
With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges as the hero of Charles Evans Jr.'s mostly muscular documentary on the 1990s campaign to expose Big Tobacco. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubScott TobiasDec 15, 2011
The heart of Addiction Incorporated is what happened after DeNoble was canned and later emerged as a key witness in news reports, courtrooms, and Congressional subcommittees. Bound by a non-disclosure agreement, DeNoble operated like a character in a real-life John Grisham thriller. Read full review
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Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierDec 12, 2011
The most dramatic material, such as Victor DeNoble's much-applauded congressional testimony, more or less traffics common knowledge without bothering to provide fresh emotional context. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenJan 12, 2012
The film's bigger problem is that after a certain point the way in which Evans allows DeNoble to narrate his own story comes to feel self-congratulatory and makes Addiction Incorporated seem a bit more like an advertisement or an endorsement than an investigation or exploration. Read full review
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Time OutAndrew SchenkerDec 13, 2011
So long as we're watching DeNoble recounting the details of his laboratory experiments, Addiction Incorporated remains sufficiently gripping; when Evans is reduced to observing his saintly subject educating high-school students about the dangers of nicotine addiction, it's considerably less so. Read full review
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