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Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
This impassioned documentary is well-intentioned and admirable in its aims, but overreaching and therefore lacking impact. Full Review
Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter
The bottom line: The impact of this forceful indictment of our healthcare system is lessened by the sheer ubiquity of similarly-themed documentaries. Full Review
Jeannette Catsoulis
The New York Times
Advocating freedom from a system that "doesn't want you to die and doesn't want you to get well," this hard-hitting film leaves us finally more hopeful than despairing. Full Review
Katie Walsh
The Playlist
Ultimately, while 'Escape Fire' proposes numerous options for changing the system-- getting Medicare to cover healthy lifestyle counseling programs, incentivizing doctors to spend time with patients, and patients to empower their own health-- the one that is most poignant is that people should spend the time to take care of each other. Full Review
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
Cogent, convincing, determinedly non-ideological, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tells us that everything we think we know about that incendiary topic might be wrong. And it offers us a way out of the morass. Full Review
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