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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Christian Science Monitor | David Sterritt

    You may become a cinemaniac yourself after sitting through this beauty. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    What Christlieb and Kijak do so well is keeping these folks from not seeming like loons. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    They talk warmly and with enthusiasm about certain titles, but I have the eerie feeling that they must be at a movie whether they enjoy it or not. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Both compelling and disturbing, this tragicomic documentary follows five dreamers as they pursue romance. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    It's too short, and it doesn't delve deep enough. But it's thoroughly enjoyable. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | Dennis Lim

    Built on a foundation of cinephilia, Cinemania is a valentine of sorts to this movie mecca (you have to love a city, and a film culture, that can sustain such bottomless appetites). Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marrit Ingman

    A couple of the cinemaniacs are less defined than others, but the portrait that emerges is a detailed composite of life on the fringe. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion A.V. Club | Nathan Rabin

    A voyeuristic look at voyeurs, Cinemania never seems sure whether it's a comedy or a tragedy. Instead, the film just seems intent on depicting its subjects as lovable kooks, a reductive portrayal that does little to acknowledge the desperation and loneliness that permeates every frame. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    It is left for Mr. Heidbreder to offer the fanciest rationalization for their addiction. Asked whether the movies are a substitute for life, he rejects the suggestion that their behavior is pathological and declares that film itself "is a form of living." Read full review

  • 50
    Variety |

    An unsparing, if light-touched, look at obsession, denial and where to find the cheap seats in Manhattan. Read full review

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