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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoSlovenian-born writer-teacher Slavoj Zizek, narrator of the movie "A Pervert's Guide to the Cinema," provides the most entertainment.
- 70VarietyVarietyStimulating film, enlivened by creative location shooting.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanIdeas beam out from Astra Taylor's engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirBy conducting her conversations in public spaces, and removing her interlocutors from desks and offices and book-lined studies and other appurtenances of intellectual authority, Taylor introduces a degree of playfulness and unpredictability that becomes the movie's M.O.
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisOver the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottA modest, intermittently engaging film.
- It won't be everybody's idea of entertainment but the heady documentary "Examined Life" provides a sound forum for an influential cross-section of professional thinkers to theorize on such weighty topics as life and death, politics, the environment and disabilities.