Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
8 |
The widespread speculation that Exit Through the Gift Shop is a hoax only adds to its fascination. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
8 |
The brilliantly untrustworthy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop reminds us that a film can start out in one direction and then change course so radically, it becomes an act of provocation unto itself. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
7 |
...a funny and wonderfully misshapen conversation piece... |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
7 |
..., there's ultimately no quite figuring out what's what in Exit, an uncertainty that energizes its sociological-snapshot portrait and compellingly suggests that Banksy, his role and participation in the proceedings up for grabs, may well be a real-deal 21st-century postmodernist. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
7 |
A documentary on the art world may strike you as a yawn. No worries. You'll be laughing helplessly at this one. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
10 |
...an exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be. |
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis |
8 |
...like Banksy's best work, a trompe l'oeil: a film that looks like a documentary but feels like a monumental con. |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
10 |
...delights in taking you by surprise, starting quietly but ending up in a hall of mirrors as unsettling as anything Lewis Carroll's Alice ever experienced. Even when you think you've figured this film out, you can't shake the notion that maybe you haven't. |
People
Alynda Wheat |
8 |
You'll be enthralled. |
LA Weekly
Aaron Hillis |
9 |
A genuinely hip, thought-provoking work of art disguised as a doomed documentary resurrected, Exit Through the Gift Shop is not just the definitive portrait of street-art counterculture, but also a hilarious exposé on the gullibility of the masses who embrace manufactured creative personas. |
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis |
9 |
A genuinely hip, thought-provoking work of art disguised as a doomed documentary resurrected, Exit Through the Gift Shop is not just the definitive portrait of street-art counterculture, but also a hilarious exposé on the gullibility of the masses who embrace manufactured creative personas. |
Onion AV Club
Noel Murray |
9 |
Exit Through The Gift Shop is a documentary that doubles as a comic thriller, and it's as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
9 |
...has the patina of a con job anyway – and a first-rate one, too. |
Variety
Peter Debruge |
9 |
...a raucously entertaining postmodern survey of guerrilla street art that appears to be one thing (a chronicle of the scene centered on its most enigmatic figure, Banksy), only to fold back on itself and examine would-be filmmaker Thierry Guetta instead. |
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