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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghBurnett and Lee's graceful, sympathetic documentary focuses on participants who embody Burning Man's ideals without being blind to the opportunists and party animals it inevitably attracts.
- 50New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsEssentially a home movie, nicely shot but dull.
- The four individuals' narratives are not always that compelling and make for a film best experienced on a strictly sensory level. Let the images wash over you and enjoy.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceLess sentiment and more peculiarity would have limned a richer, though probably less audition-tape-worthy, reflection of Burning Man's 25,000-strong community of the absurd.
- 40L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyThe film reduces a complex social environment to a trifling spectacle of fakery, peopled by faux-hemians who offer up trivial confessions as if they're earth-shattering.
- 38New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannFalls far short of capturing the hedonistic spirit of this ephemeral art community. It's more like a routine home video with arty pretensions.
- 30VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThis not particularly well shot/organized feature isn't very engaging on the human level, either.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenToo lazy and too loosely structured to accomplish much besides conveying some vivid physical impressions. There is no narrator, and the structure that exists is clouded by the new-age mumbo-jumbo of eight principal commentators.