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This is a startlingly funny portrait of Gothic Americana.Full Review

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

Plagues & Pleasures is kinda like one of those travel videos, except it's offering you a vacation like you've never had before and it's not loaded with bulls---.Full Review

Eric Campos
Film Threat

To their credit, directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, both of San Francisco, poke gentle fun at the locals without ridiculing them. The film's playful spirit is underscored by catchy steel-guitar melodies (courtesy of the Friends of Dean Martinez) that perfectly suit the bone-dry setting.Full Review

John McMurtrie
San Francisco Chronicle

Occasionally lighthearted but always affecting cautionary tale.Full Review

Fred Camper
Chicago Reader

Although ill-served by the lack of expert voices or elaboration on viable choices, Plagues and Pleasures is an often-fascinating document of change -- incremental as evaporation, or catastrophic as flooding.Full Review

Michael Ordona
Los Angeles Times
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