Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Paladin | Release Date: October 14, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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50
The New York TimesPaul BrunickOct 13, 2011
There are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only Connected had a stronger center of gravity. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 12, 2011
The film ultimately works best as a daughter's heartfelt tribute to an enormously devoted and emotionally generous parent. Unfortunately, that's just not enough to, well, connect us to the bigger picture. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoOct 12, 2011
Your heart will go out to Shlain, who clearly adored her father. But other parts of Connected may remind you of an Al Gore lecture. Read full review
40
Time OutMatt SingerOct 12, 2011
She never figures out what, exactly, the deal is regarding our short attention spans, but her ADD-afflicted film definitely provides evidence that they exist. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick SchagerOct 12, 2011
Like Shlain's hand-written diagram in which lines twist and knot while linking various subjects, the film resembles not a coherent thesis but a tangle of semi-related ideas. Read full review
38
New York PostSara StewartOct 14, 2011
Much lip service is given to the global village in Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death and Technology, yet it constantly drifts back into a Shlain family slideshow. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneOct 12, 2011
One of the film's main problems is the fact that Shlain is so invested in connecting her father's scientific findings... with an astonishingly linear history of the world that she fails to see the more private connections that flicker in and out of her verbose voiceover. Read full review
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