American Pain
Cable News Network (CNN) | Release Date (Streaming): June 8, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The PlaylistChris BarsantiJun 23, 2023
Foster tackles this material in the high-velocity fashion common to many stranger-than-fiction documentaries about people gleefully living outside the law. There is a lot for him to work with, one vivid and outlandish anecdote spilling into another. Read full review
80
VarietyDennis HarveyJun 23, 2023
It’s hard to think of a prior chronicle quite so luridly indicting as American Pain. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJun 23, 2023
Foster’s research and storytelling are very satisfying, even if the results aren’t. Many of those involved wound up serving prison time, but of course it was far too short, too gentle and not served in the same cells as the Big Pharma execs who made this horror story possible. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJun 26, 2023
The cold irony that Foster provocatively presents is that if the idiocy surrounding pain clinics hadn’t become too gross and widespread for the authorities to ignore, people like the Georges might still be getting rich off of addiction today. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJun 23, 2023
Being appalled by people who get their comeuppance is always entertaining, and American Pain fills that bill, though the misbehavior Mr. Foster chronicles is so shameless that viewers might start to lose their bearings. Read full review
60
TheWrapRonda Racha PenriceJun 23, 2023
Ultimately, American Pain perpetuates the media’s dangerous pattern of humanizing white criminals under the guise of moral disdain. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanJun 22, 2023
The utility of an energetic character study of depraved opioid kingpins is questionable. But the documentary unspools with enough style and spark to engage. Read full review
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