Series 7: The Contenders: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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Rotten Tomatoes: 94 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

The movie has the look and feel of one of those Saturday Night Live miniparodies that's exquisitely clever and close to the bone.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)

40

The movie feels facile and blunt spirited.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Wloszczyna USA Today (Top Critic)

As entertainment, such dark material can only stretch so far, and Series 7 comes awfully close to being as numbing as the genre it mocks. But its power can't be denied.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

70

It's as funny as you could reasonably expect without Christopher Guest being involved in the project.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

70

It seduces us until, damn our black hearts, we've come to really care who wins.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Amy Taubin Village Voice (Top Critic)

A dead-on shot to the heart of reality TV.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Louis B. Parks Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Series 7 is clever, hip filmmaking, admirable for its tenacious faithfulness to the world it creates.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

The movie has one joke and tells it too often, for too long.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Does exactly what independent cinema should -- challenge audiences while it entertains.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Effectively satiric while still developing and sustaining a rooting interest in its invented story over the course of a smart, short running time.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

Smart, witty and assured.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Sean Means Film.com (Top Critic)

But the surprise in Series 7 is that through all of Minahan's well-crafted trappings ... a touching character-driven drama emerges in Dawn and Jeff's story.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 11 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

This reality TV spoof is even harder to watch than the sadistic, unwatchable crap it parodies.
Full Review » 12 years ago
David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

It's only fitting that we emerge from Series 7 feeling both entertained and implicated.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

This is one of those movies that is considerably more interesting to read about than it is to sit through.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

There is sharp wit in the writing, and the direction is quite good. Series 7 is undeniably effective, but that doesn't mean you feel good when it's over.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Clever.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

80

A cautionary fable whose time has come.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

30

Sounds better than it actually plays.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Sight and Sound

Full Review » 1 year ago
Derek Adams Time Out

Full Review » 7 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

50

Full Review » 8 years ago
Alexander Walker This is London

Full Review » 10 years ago