These profiles are frank, absorbing and heartbreaking, if also a bit inconclusive.
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L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
The pace of the film remains fairly brisk, in no small part because what's being said is staggering, especially if you don't know too much about the science of and politics behind vaccines.
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Slant MagazineNick Schager
Slant MagazineNick Schager
The intersection between drug-company profiteering and lobbying, and governmental and private-sector desires to protect people from deadly diseases, is navigated too cursorily by the documentary.
This emotionally manipulative, heavily partial look at the purported link between autism and childhood immunization would much rather wallow in the distress of specific families than engage with the needs of the population at large.