Examined Life
Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: February 25, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Slovenian-born writer-teacher Slavoj Zizek, narrator of the movie "A Pervert's Guide to the Cinema," provides the most entertainment. Read full review
70
VarietyRob Nelson
Stimulating film, enlivened by creative location shooting. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor's engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
By conducting her conversations in public spaces, and removing her interlocutors from desks and offices and book-lined studies and other appurtenances of intellectual authority, Taylor introduces a degree of playfulness and unpredictability that becomes the movie's M.O. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Over the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A modest, intermittently engaging film. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesGary Goldstein
It won't be everybody's idea of entertainment but the heady documentary "Examined Life" provides a sound forum for an influential cross-section of professional thinkers to theorize on such weighty topics as life and death, politics, the environment and disabilities. Read full review
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