The Alzheimer's Project
HBO | Release Date: May 10, 2009
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Entertainment WeeklyMandi Bierly
Season 1 Review: The four-part docuseries begins with ''The Memory Loss Tapes,'' a moving look at the disease's progression through seven patients at various stages. It's not a question of if you'll cry, it's how soon. Read full review
100
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: What's here is pitch-perfect - the fear, loss, emotional devastation and, peculiar to this disease, silence. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: The Alzheimer’s Project is an ambitious, disturbing, emotionally fraught and carefully optimistic four-part documentary exploring virtually every angle of Alzheimer's disease that can be explored on television Read full review
80
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Thankfully, while the reckoning of "The Memory Loss Tapes" is probably necessary, the other documentaries in the series are a little more hopeful. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: The zeal and dedication of researchers is inspiring, and so are the patients and caregivers who struggle with the disease everyday, but over all, The Alzheimer’s Project celebrates hope at the expense of caution. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: In many respects, HBO's The Alzheimer's Project is nearly identical to the Emmy-winning PBS Alzheimer's presentation, "The Forgetting," which was first broadcast in 2004 and updated last year. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: The Alzheimer's Project, a four-part series that began with two episodes focused on harrowing descriptions of the disease, concludes on a hopeful note with two more outlining research advances. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterRandee Dawn
Season 1 Review: We like noble efforts. But we tend to like them better on television when they're accompanied by a sense of pacing and entertainment value. (If things were otherwise, PBS would rule the universe.) In this case, a few more spoonfuls of sugar might have helped this medicine go down. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The Alzheimer's Project is hard to watch. It's just not as hard as the disease it examines. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: It's perhaps inevitable that this project will range from sobering and moving to, at times, feeling a bit too much like homework. Read full review
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