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The Manson Family Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

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

  • 3.0
    56

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 30

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    The less-than-persuasive result is like mediocre leftover psychedelic '60s underground cinema.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    Finally, though, Mr. Van Bebber seems more interested in recreating the grainy look of scratched 1970's film stock than in reflecting on the horrors he depicts, making this a difficult sell for all but the strongest stomachs among connoisseurs of vintage gore.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Village Voice Michael Atkinson

    A film the family might've made themselves: sophomoric, hagiographic, amateurishly strobe-happy, and thoroughly hippiefied.

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  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The film evokes how homicide became the ultimate orgasm for kids who had turned themselves into zombies of flesh.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    This is not a "horror" film or an "underground" film, but an act of transgression so extreme and uncompromised, and yet so amateurish and sloppy, that it exists in a category of one film -- this film.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Dennis Harvey

    Its own mythology aside, this flamboyant, graphic and disturbing quasi-docu reenactment of a notorious chapter in U.S. counterculture life is a fascinating if peculiar accomplishment.

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