Critic Reviews
| 80 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
An example of the pay cable channel at its finest. |
| 80 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
A wide-ranging work and a compelling one. |
| 80 |
The New Republic Sacha Zimmerman
"Addiction" does not make the viewer a voyeur, but rather a participant in the need for more and better solutions. |
| 80 |
Washington Post John Maynard
Gripping. |
| 70 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
This enlightening series clearly has an agenda: to help addicts and their families set aside the guilt and anger associated with addiction long enough to do the concrete work of thoroughly treating the disease. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
The closer you are to living with an addict or an addiction, the more essential you'll find this viewing, obviously, but the less personally involved will still find much of scientific and human interest. |
| 70 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
In taking an illuminative approach, HBO gives audiences a comprehensive series that covers an impressive amount of ground. |
| 60 |
Variety Brian Lowry
The overall approach, though, inevitably yields a series of individual images as opposed to a cohesive perspective, relying upon various directors to capture the sometimes harrowing, sometimes heartbreaking scope of the problem. |
| 60 |
Newsday Verne Gay
A relentlessly grim and deeply depressing viewing experience. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
The film is bereft of feel-good scenes and drug-movie clichés. |
| 60 |
Boston Globe Joanna Weiss
This is less a documentary project than a comprehensive self-help workshop.... As drama, however, it's a little bit relentless. |
| 60 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
[It] has a certain instructional dryness. |
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