Star (2001) Critic Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

For sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

A thrillingly, thoroughly wonderful film.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

Moves slowly and grimly toward the moment that for the audience is the most engrossing though filled with dread: when things begin to unravel and the participants are no longer aware of the cameras. That is when your shoulders tense and you lean toward the screen.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Robin RauziAdd Critic to Favorites

Nimbly documents the rise and fall of a Web company through its charismatic leaders.Read the full review

Variety | David RooneyAdd Critic to Favorites

Topical film, which goes beyond its potentially dry diet of facts to incorporate the juicy human drama of Machiavellian manipulations, ambition, torn loyalties and crushing betrayal.Read the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

Astute and entertaining documentary.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Delivers more suspense than a tombful of mummies.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

It also has heart and soul, two commodities all too often in short supply in the field of garden-variety cinema verite.Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

A cautionary tale very well-told.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

As an inside view of the bursting of the Internet bubble, Startup.com is definitive.Read the full review

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