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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfStunning, eerily atmospheric.
- 91The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIf a team of clever screenwriters tried to script a cautionary tale about the politics of fame (and the fame of politics), they likely couldn’t come up with anything odder or more apt than Erik Gandini’s documentary Videocracy.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisGiven the stakes, it’s hard not to wish that Mr. Gandini had been more ambitious: at 85 minutes, Videocracy can only scratch the surface. Even so, after watching it, you realize that even a cursory look at Mr. Berlusconi is crucial to understanding an age in which celebrity is now the coin of the realm.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterMorbidly fascinating Swedish doc about Berlusconi's Italy hits the mark.
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirGandini makes it seem as if the nation of Dante and Fellini has been conquered by "Girls Gone Wild." As hyperbolic cases go, that's a pretty delicious one, but it's not quite true yet.
- 40VarietyVarietyRather than presenting a well-argued expose of the disturbing symbiosis that exists between Italo politics and TV, with Prime Minister Berlusconi being only the most obvious connection, the scribe-helmer gets sidetracked by marginal characters while keeping bare facts to a minimum.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanItalian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is an ideal documentary subject, but Erik Gandini's jumbled take on Berlusconi's corrupting influence quickly shifts from good idea to wasted opportunity.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceVideocracy is hopelessly infected with the very prurience it means to expose--again and again, Gandini returns to images of pretty women grinding away for the camera in hopes of scoring their 15 minutes.