Project Greenlight (2023)
HBO Max | Release Date: July 13, 2023
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Kathryn VanArendonkJul 17, 2023
Season 1 Review: Project Greenlight’s newfound insistence that this be a supportive, nontoxic workplace means that all tensions and frustrations are buried six feet deep, and the season vibrates with the repressed energy of a hundred people trying to conceal their emotions. ... There’s the unmistakable sensation of a balloon deflating by the end of the season, created by an underwhelming movie and a young director who’s meant to be heroic but instead comes off as checked out and uninsightful. This too is compelling. Read full review
70
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJul 19, 2023
Season 1 Review: The more benign parts of the process—casting, location scouting—are as interesting as ever. But they are eventually swallowed up by the higher drama, by Project Greenlight’s chilling documentation of a good enough idea gone bad. Read full review
70
TimeJudy BermanJul 17, 2023
Season 1 Review: If you have the patience for a lower-key chronicle of the gestation of a film and the education of a filmmaker in the age of straight-to-streaming genre fare, the rebooted Project Greenlight: A New Generation makes for a fascinating watch on its own merits. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneNina MetzJul 13, 2023
Season 1 Review: Rae and her team are optimistic that they can improve upon past incarnations of the show, and yet it remains the same as it ever was, for good or for ill. Read full review
60
DeciderJoel KellerJul 14, 2023
Season 1 Review: It looks like PG:ANG will start lukewarm and only get hotter as things progress. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJul 12, 2023
Season 1 Review: Unlike previous seasons, this Project Greenlight hits its stride as Gray Matter hits production, specifically with the butting of heads between the Project Greenlight and Gray Matter crews. .... It’s incredibly illuminating and completely entertaining in ways that the first half of the season fails to be. Read full review
60
VarietyDaniel D'AddarioJul 10, 2023
Season 1 Review: Say this for the documentary aspect of “Project Greenlight”: It gets Hollywood’s tendency to pass the buck precisely right. Through it all, “Project Greenlight” remains somewhat toxically watchable. Read full review
50
IGNJul 18, 2023
Season 1 Review: It makes for an irritating watch, bogged down by heavy-handed and repetitive edits that frame the most receptive (and least seasoned) filmmaker as the fall woman for Hollywood’s habitual inability to mentor, communicate, or properly place blame. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubMeredith Hobbs CoonsJul 11, 2023
Season 1 Review: What’s that Paul McCartney quote, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians”? Yeah, Project Greenlight: A New Generation feels like that. Read full review
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