Reincarnated
Vice Films | Release Date: March 15, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMar 14, 2013
The film is too slapdash and self-serving to take seriously (it’s release is timed to the precede thesame-named album’s release next month), but it’s a casually entertaining trip, aimed at fans of the charismatic rapper and his recreational substance of choice. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 30, 2013
An all-access pass to an artist embarking on a new path, this is entertaining stuff – funny, disarming, even poignant. It's also jammed with terrific music. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsMiriam BaleMar 14, 2013
Director Andy Capper crafts a surprisingly moving story, particularly in Snoop’s reactions to the deaths of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMikael WoodMar 14, 2013
Capper's film feels like a making-of featurette spun out to documentary dimensions, just another component in the new album's marketing plan...In its simplest moments, though, Reincarnated presents an honesty that is its own reward. It shows us an old Dogg with no tricks. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubMar 14, 2013
It's a stoner movie all the way, with much deep thought but little active conflict. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesOdie HendersonMar 13, 2013
Reincarnated seems more interested in showing us countless scenes of people smoking herb than in giving us details about the making of the album it purports to be documenting. Granted, Snoop is immersing himself in a culture where this is a customary process, but it gets old and tired very quickly. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 13, 2013
More honest than you might expect a promotional piece such as this to be, but less self-investigative than you might like, you come away thinking there are much greater depths for Snoop Lion to plumb. Read full review
40
EmpirePatrick PetersMar 18, 2013
It features more weed than a pot-warming party at Bill & Ben's but offers little more than spliff-glazed promotion for Snoop's reggae reincarnation. Read full review
40
Total FilmStephen KellyMar 15, 2013
It’s a premise that sounds like the silliest of celebrity vanity but is, in fact, presented as an endearing portrayal of Rastafari culture, spiritual exploration and Snoop’s own past, present and future. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAndy WebsterMar 14, 2013
Snoop has certainly tempered his worldview, but enlightenment isn’t as evident here as much as a woozy weariness, perhaps a long-term byproduct of being very, very stoned. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick SchagerMar 12, 2013
The film is as lightweight as the ganja-puffing is plentiful, little more than a vanity project that allows its subject to wax philosophical on his past triumphs, tragedies, and spiritual development (aided by Louis Farrakhan) from gangland pimp to nonviolent family man. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearMar 12, 2013
And though Capper captures a few truly intimate moments, like the star humbly participating in a Rasta ritual, the whole thing ends up feeling like a superficial cross between a starstruck version of Vice’s gonzo travelogues and a highly (ahem) stage-managed portrait of an artist in transition. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneMar 14, 2013
Essentially 90-minute promo video carefully orchestrated by the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg and his handlers. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsMar 13, 2013
Part of Snoop’s protean quality comes from the fact that his rhymes only cut so far: He can pivot freely because he’s never dug in too deep. Read full review
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