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I'm Still Here Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 91

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  An artful piece of exploitation vrit.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  A sad and painful documentary that serves little useful purpose other than to pound another nail into the coffin. Here is a gifted actor who apparently by his own decision has brought desolation upon his head.

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• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyLeslie Felperin

  An utterly fascinating experiment that apparently blends real and faked material to examine notions of celebrity, mental stability and friendship.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  My guess is that after years of being the trick pony, he wanted to see what it was like to be the ringmaster.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  This sporadically engrossing mockumentary, which gets better as it rolls along, must have been planned way back before Phoenix bombed on "Late Show With David Letterman."

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• 50

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  At once deeply felt and devastatingly cynical, I'm Still Here's bone-dry satire couldn't exist without the celebrity media feedback loop. But its apparent attack on the Hollywood machine is so insidery, so vicious, that to us-the everyday consumer-it's just not clear why this stunt needed to exist at all.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  Fake or not, I'm Still Here is no fun to watch, and in fact Phoenix's situation comes off as so dire that it becomes a reason to doubt the film's authenticity. Filming someone having a mental breakdown is embarrassing and exploitative at best.

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• 25

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  It's really not much fun - in fact it's painful - to watch an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It almost doesn't matter if the psyche in question is imploding artificially - as in staged - or organically.

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• 0

  out of 100

  Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips

  Rarely has the question of a documentary's artifice mattered less. I genuinely hated this picture, almost as much as I've admired Phoenix's work in everything from "Gladiator" to "Walk the Line" and even the hackneyed but affecting "Two Lovers."

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