Cinema Verite
HBO | Release Date: April 23, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
TimeJames PoniewozikApr 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: Cinema Verite is not a bad movie at all but its failing is an ironic one: it smooths out the messiness and non sequiturs of real life to fit its story into a neat feature-film arc. Read full review
60
Washington PostHank StueverApr 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: An intriguing but often clumsy new movie about the making of the TV show. Read full review
60
SlateTroy PattersonApr 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: It plays, for better and worse, like a slightly elevated version of one of those issue-of-the-week telefilms of the old school, with their teen traumas and kitchen-sink melodramas. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: As the Loud family fractures and then reunites to fight back against their critics, Cinema Verite settles into melodrama that Lane's solid performance can only partly hold together. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyApr 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Cinema Verite is a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydApr 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: As an attempt to tell the truth about an attempt to tell the truth about the state of domestic relations in a time of changing values, Cinema Verite fails--it cannot help but fail--as anything but a platform for some interesting performances and a few explicitly, loudly and briefly argued ideas about where one should draw the line when you point a camera into innocent people's lives. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenApr 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Cinema Verite dramatizes the making of "An American Family," but it dwells too long on the setup and doesn't spend nearly enough time on the public response to the program and the impact that reaction (much of it negative) had on the Louds. Read full review
50
SalonMatt Zoller SeitzApr 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Cinema Verite is smart and often moving, but unsatisfying overall. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryApr 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Cinema Verite harbors some merit, and is worth seeing if only for Lane. That said, it's a disappointingly shallow treatment considering the wealth of potential within the premise and period. Read full review
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