a/k/a Tommy Chong Critic Reviews

Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.Read the full review

Tells the depressing, often ridiculous and generally enraging story of how and why Mr. Chong, an extremely laid-back and genial camera presence, ended up doing time in the minimum-security Taft Correctional Institution in Taft, Calif.Read the full review

This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments.Read the full review

Perhaps it was inevitable that a movie about the ultimate stoner would be undone by fuzzy execution and lack of ambition.Read the full review

First-time filmmaker Josh Gilbert, whose skills behind the camera are rudimentary, might be a bit too close to his subject to do disinterested viewers justice; he clearly is a fan and is making no effort to show both sides of the story he reports.Read the full review