American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:16
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: American Cannibal is a scathing, funny exploration of America's obsession with constructed realism and fame.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Television
Synopsis: "American Cannibal" pushes beyond "Fahrenheit/911" and "Supersize Me" to break new ground in documentary territory. Rather than forcing situations and twisting facts to tell a story, filmmakers... [More]
Reviews for American Cannibal - The Documentary
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Not so much an examination of the tragic trajectory of an ill-fated reality-TV show but just the biggest hoax since The Blair Witch Project. Full Review |
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4/5 |
essential viewing for any latter-day TV watcher. Full Review |
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How far would you go to eat a finger? Full Review |
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B+ |
If there's one thing to be learned from American Cannibal, it's this: Pursuing a career in the TV industry is only for those with a superhuman tolerance for sleazy opportunism. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The real savagery is in the satire, coldly measuring the lengths to which contestants might go and the depths to which the protagonists sink. Full Review |
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Reality television is painful enough to watch at home, let alone on the big screen, but directors Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro somehow didn't get the message. Full Review |
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American Cannibal is ostensibly about the phony, exploitative nature of reality TV, and though documentarians Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro hit that point too hard by piling up interviews with TV experts who speak in exaggerated cautionary tones, Full Review |
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"American Cannibal" is a fast-paced satire about the state reality television that builds its humor on its depiction of the limits our current reality TV craze. Full Review |
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For all of its self-consciously sophisticated layering, American Cannibal manages a few authentically dark moments of its own. Full Review |
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A genuine cinematic hoot, while also providing insight into the ways of American mass entertainment. Full Review |
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4/6 |
To the film’s credit, it’s finally a whistle-blower on unsafe shooting practices, not unsafe dining habits. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Until everything collapses, and the filmmakers are left grasping at straws, it’s absorbing in a sick way.
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1.5/5 |
What's here is a glimpse not into how far people will go to win a reality-TV show, but how far greedy writers and producers will go to degrade, debauch and enrich themselves. Full Review |
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This was much better when Mel Brooks did it back in the '60s. Full Review |
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Reality TV has rarely cared much about truth -- and maybe this is the doc it deserves. The crass truthiness here is far more apt than any of the glossy satire in American Dreamz. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Less a piece of incisive cultural commentary than a riveting portrait of two nice guys whose lives and careers go into a tailspin, one moral compromise at a time. Full Review |
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It's insightful as well as entertaining, and the inclusion of real interviews with people both inside and outside the business means it functions as both an intelligent critique and a dire warning. Full Review |
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