Off Label
Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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80
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenAug 7, 2013
With its focus on intimate detail, Off Label is not a conventional "issue film" reaching for conclusions. Palmieri and Mosher have taken on a huge and urgent topic, and their work's impact rests on their refusal to tell viewers how to feel. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAaron HillisAug 6, 2013
Don't discount October Country filmmakers Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's tragicomically beautiful art-doc, which sensitively favors unflinching testimonials and visually impressionistic observations over journalistic activism. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 8, 2013
Though it lacks the specific argumentative point of view that might have carried it into the mainstream, its sympathetic approach to subjects offers a compelling human perspective on questions that get too little attention in debates about health care. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineBill WeberAug 5, 2013
Sincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 7, 2013
Hypocrisy aside, Off Label’s biggest problem is that, for a movie that features a lot of people talking about a lot of things, it doesn’t have a lot to say; its scatterbrained, switching-between-browser-tabs structure guarantees that no idea gets developed very far. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldAug 8, 2013
The film’s stacked stories naggingly lack a cohesive train of thought beyond the often harmful pervasiveness of pharmaceuticals in American society. Read full review
10
The DissolveMike D'AngeloAug 8, 2013
Each scene in Off Label, viewed in isolation, seems perfectly fine, even fairly interesting. It’s how all of those scenes fit together—or, rather, how they absolutely don’t—that creates the overall sense of grotesque deformity. Read full review
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