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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThugs offers a damning summary of the FDA approval process as a closed loop in which one hand washes the other and crucial data can remain hidden.
- 70Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin TsaiDespite [Bell's] casual aura, the filmmaker is eloquent and thoughtful. He argues that Big Pharma merely services consumer demand for quick fixes with "magic" pills, bringing his cautionary tale full circle.
- 50Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamIt's unusually confessional and often moving, but Bell's film is unsatisfying as a piece of documentary journalism.
- 50VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerEngaging and enraging but also, alas, consistently superficial.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerEven before a “do as I say, not as I do” twist costs it all credibility, Prescription Thugs is a not very good documentary about a very important subject.
- 25Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardIt's symptomatic of the one-man-show form of polemical exposé that's come to dominate, and deteriorate, documentary practice.