Critics Scoreboard
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Average Critic Score:
36
(26 sources)
36
(26 sources)
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Unashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture. Read Full Review » -
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Provides an untidy and frustrating but never boring look at his life and times. Read Full Review » -
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63
Chicago Tribune
Feels more like a music video than a serious look back at a time, a place and a very smart, funny and unconventional man. Read Full Review » -
63
USA Today
A film dealing fully with Hoffman's final years might have had a lot more punch. Read Full Review » -
63
Boston Globe
An earnest but ultimately scattered effort to put Yippie radical Abbie Hoffman's best foot posthumously forward. Read Full Review » -
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New York Post
Vincent D'Onofrio does capture Hoffman's charisma and nuttiness - and he's the only reason to resist the temptation to skip this exasperating movie. Read Full Review » -
50
San Francisco Examiner
It's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings. Read Full Review » -
50
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50
LA Weekly
Throws in a lot of detail but withholds the real secrets of Abbie Hoffman. His life was no fairy tale. Why should it be filmed to end like one? Read Full Review » -
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50
Los Angeles Times
There might have been a better, more involving method of telling Hoffman's story, but it is expressed with a firm sense of commitment to accuracy and authenticity. Read Full Review » -
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Washington Post
It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string. Read Full Review » -
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30
Variety
A valiant but seriously flawed attempt to belie the notion that if you remember what you did in the '60s, you weren't there. Read Full Review » -
30
TNT RoughCut
Although Steal This Movie isn't worth the price of admission, it is worth sneaking in to see D'Onofrio and Garofalo's splendid performances. Read Full Review » -
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Christian Science Monitor
This superficial treatment makes so many dubious decisions - oversimplifying issues, for instance, so there'll be more time for high-flying emotion - that 1960s veterans may be moved to protest rather than praise. Read Full Review » -
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Salon.com
The disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent. Read Full Review » -
10
Village Voice
At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history. Read Full Review »
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