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Protagonist Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    68

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

    All four stories are worthwhile, though together they’re an awful lot for one modest doc to cover. Yu’s integration of cinematic and theatrical elements is uneven, and a bit stiff.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    Jessica Yu's enthralling documentary exploration of people with obsessive needs for control and self-mastery.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety

    The dangers of extremism and the virtues of uncertainty are the keys to the remarkable Protagonist, docu helmer Jessica Yu's exploration of four men's journey through dysfunction, obsession and redemption.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

    Yu's film may be challenging to synopsize, but it's thoroughly engrossing and wildly surprising.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

    Although it takes a while for Yu's thesis to jell, the film makes a lasting impression as it delves into an unfashionable territory: character as fate rather than a function of pharmaceuticals.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    If all this sounds awfully classroom-bound, it isn't -- far from it. Each man's story as he tells it is riveting, truly stranger than fiction, and awesome, too, in the way of unfathomable humans.

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