Edtv
MCA/Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 26, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
12
Negative:
4
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37
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Satire in a blanket of bland. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
I've never been sold on this anti-TV thesis. It's snooty. It assumes we in the audience have seen the light denied the lower orders. Invariably, the people in these movies who are rendered blotto by the tube are dingbat common folk. EDtv takes this notion to a new low. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverMichael Sragow
By the end the movie audience, like the electorate, is less satisfied than strung-out and exhausted. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
But it's also Howard's and his audience's misfortune that a good time can be had by all only if nothing of substance gets said. Read full review
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