Grass
Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) | Release Date: June 2, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A spirited, smart-alecky look at the ongoing conflict between a government that wants to eliminate pot and a public that wants to smoke it.
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
This turns out to be an informative, involving, even sobering advocacy film. Read full review
80
SalonJeff Stark
A flashy, smoker-friendly documentary on the twisted history of the evil weed -- and the misguided drug war against marijuana. Read full review
80
Film.comJohn Hartl
Grass is often closer to the sobering tone of the PBS show than it is to the silly "Weed," with its stoned, barely literate potheads discussing the quality of their dope. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
A revealing, often amusing, sometimes disturbing look at the history and politics of marijuana use in American society. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
This jovial tour through changing attitudes toward cannibis is so plugged into pothead logic that the opening credits are rerun at the end. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
He's (Mann) a solid historian and this film is full of fascinating facts, but he's a cultural critic at heart, and a good one at that. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
It's as entertaining and informative as anything Mann's ever done, and as good an example of grass humor as you're likely to find anywhere. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
With its pointed narrative, the film makes its case with a minimum of pushiness and a subtle nod to its crowd. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
Aims for crowd-pleasing impact over subtlety. But it's still a welcome corrective to the current "zero tolerance" fad. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Charged with raucous energy and a satirical slant, this witty history lesson is preaching to the converted, sharing a knowing wink with everyone who's ever inhaled. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Until something better comes along, we're just gonna have to keep the fires burning on this Ron Mann Joint. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
So heavy-handed and blatant in its posturings and so incomplete at 73 minutes that you simply feel like you've been harangued more than educated.
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A well-researched and well-illustrated, if often facetious, record of the U.S. government's longtime war on cannabis. And while it's a little too single-minded, it's both fun to watch and quite informative.
60
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Grass's relentless hard sell ultimately grows wearisome. Although only 80 minutes, it ends, and not a moment too soon, with a pot legalization rally that might well be reproduced outside the theater. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Rich with statistics and snazzy visuals, but it ignores those larger questions and, as a result, feels a tad naïve. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Grass is not much as a documentary. It's a cut-and-paste job, assembling clips from old and new anti-drug films and alternating them with pro-drug footage from the Beats, the flower power era and so on. Read full review
50
New York PostHannah Brown
Strident, unrepentantly one-sided but often entertaining.
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
It has as much of an ax to grind as the humorless and misguided bureaucrats it mocks. Read full review
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