Steal This Movie
Trimark Video | Release Date: August 18, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Provides an untidy and frustrating but never boring look at his life and times. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Unashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberely Jones
Too bad the movie about him is just as flawed. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
An earnest but ultimately scattered effort to put Yippie radical Abbie Hoffman's best foot posthumously forward. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneJohn Petrakis
Feels more like a music video than a serious look back at a time, a place and a very smart, funny and unconventional man. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
A film dealing fully with Hoffman's final years might have had a lot more punch. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's a compelling story, and very of its tumultuous time. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Scrappy and rambling and overly earnest. Read full review
50
Film.comHenry Cabot Beck
Not quite Abbie. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
There might have been a better, more involving method of telling Hoffman's story, but it is expressed with a firm sense of commitment to accuracy and authenticity. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
Won't work until the film comes out on video. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Vincent D'Onofrio does capture Hoffman's charisma and nuttiness - and he's the only reason to resist the temptation to skip this exasperating movie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
It's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyMarc B. Haefele
Throws in a lot of detail but withholds the real secrets of Abbie Hoffman. His life was no fairy tale. Why should it be filmed to end like one? Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
An admiring but overly simplified walk down memory lane. Read full review
45
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Never better than middling, despite its best intentions. Read full review
40
Washington PostRita Kempley
It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Likable but muddled screen biography. Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
Bizarrely depressing. Read full review
30
TNT RoughCutJ. Rentilly
Although Steal This Movie isn't worth the price of admission, it is worth sneaking in to see D'Onofrio and Garofalo's splendid performances. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert Koehler
A valiant but seriously flawed attempt to belie the notion that if you remember what you did in the '60s, you weren't there. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This superficial treatment makes so many dubious decisions - oversimplifying issues, for instance, so there'll be more time for high-flying emotion - that 1960s veterans may be moved to protest rather than praise. Read full review
20
Dallas ObserverAndy Klein
Comes across as artificial. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Misshapen and obfuscating biopic. Read full review
10
SalonCharles Taylor
The disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent. Read full review
10
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history. Read full review
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