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

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

This is a small film, but it moved me and made me angry. Both reactions, in this context, are worthwhile.Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

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.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times

How the feds inadvertently resurrected the performing career of stoner comic Tommy Chong by busting him is the ironic subtext of Josh Gilbert's one-sided documentary a/k/a Tommy Chong.Full Review

Lou Lumenick
New York Post

This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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