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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The PlaylistGary GarrisonThe PlaylistGary GarrisonThey are tough and necessary questions that make Take Your Pills, for all its dizzying energy, a grounded and rigorous film. Though at times, it feels too squeamish to lean all the way into an idea or too hard on a particular truth, which makes it feel too deliberate and maybe not quite the earnest dissection it could be.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe kinds of connections that Take Your Pills makes, between the culture of information overload and a radically tightened job market and heightened personal performance and the chemical itch that fuels this whole late-stage capitalist dynamic, may strike some as too speculative for comfort. Yet it’s precisely by making connections like these that a documentary can fire up your perceptions enough to burn through the cumulative effects of advertising.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s pretty late in the game to be getting a primer on this years-long epidemic, but the least you can say about this super-slick, ADHD friendly film is that you can’t watch it and say you don’t have an idea how it could benefit you or your kid, and just a taste of exactly why it’s a bad idea.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweAlthough the prescription drug users that Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) profiles have some interesting things to say about how these products affect their performance and perceptions, the steady stream of talking-head experts doesn’t do much to raise the movie’s pulse.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichA reductive documentary that’s far too focused on the big picture to really unpack the human element.