What the Bleep Do We Know!? Critic Reviews

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The Hollywood Reporter | Michael RechtshaffenAdd Critic to Favorites

Think of it as "The Matrix" for the quantum physics set.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Not a conventional documentary about quantum physics. It's more like a collision in the editing room between talking heads, an impenetrable human parable and a hallucinogenic animated cartoon.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dave KehrAdd Critic to Favorites

Once upon a time this was known as "the power of positive thinking," and it didn't involve nearly so much math.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin CrustAdd Critic to Favorites

As entertainment, the movie is a mixed bag. Some of the talking heads become just that after a while.Read the full review

Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites

Pic's not-so-hidden agenda is to promote the fusion of science and New Age religion, making it a close cousin to ventures as Bernt and Fritjof Capra's "Mindwalk."Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Darts around maniacally before congealing around a touchy-feely message of personal empowerment whose secular humanism and moral relativism is bound to strike fundamentalists of all stripes as downright Satanic.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

On the whole, it feels like a cross between a PBS special hosted by a series of low-rent Deepak Chopras and an infomercial for self-help audio tapes.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The biggest puzzlement about "What'' is what it's doing in major movie theaters around the country when it so clearly belongs on one of those small cable channels given to peculiar programming.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

A terribly self-satisfied lecture about the ubiquity of quantum physics in spiritual life, is dishonest enough to suggest that even its cavalcade of scientists and mystics might not know anything about such topics as reality and the sub-atomic world.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

The film treats its audience like fidgety junior-high schoolers, piling on the sub-Koyaanisqatsi cityscapes and cheesy episodes with Marlee Matlin as a lonely photographer, plus bouncy cartoons of human cells who look as if they'd be happier chasing stains in bathroom-cleanser commercials.Read the full review

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