Startup.com 2001

Critics score:
92 / 100

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Robin Rauzi, Los Angeles Times: Benefits from everything about the Internet with few of the insufferable tech-head side effects. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Startup.com humanizes the dot-com goldrush that in the last few years has left a handful of millionaires and hundreds of go-for-broke paupers in its wake. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Startup.com brings you to an unstaged, evolving economic jungle where survivors are very fortunate -- and friendships are at high risk. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The lines tiptoed by <i.Startup.com are sometimes fine to the point of being imperceptible, but that too only enhances the sense of high-wire tension. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: One of the most involving pieces of eavesdropping you're likely to experience. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: Some people are finding it difficult to live with the idea that Kaleil could put his employees through hell, lose $60 million of other people's money, and wind up a movie star. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Nearly two years in the making, Startup.com nevertheless arrives in theaters feeling almost like breaking news. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Startup.com may be to our time what Wall Street was to the '80s. Read more

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Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: What's so touching about Startup.com is that it's really about the collapse of a dream. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: With newcomer Noujaim (who was a Harvard roommate of Tuzman), they once again pull off a coup in what is essentially an art of creative noticing. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: . As an inside view of the bursting of the Internet bubble, Startup.com is definitive. Read more

Jeff Stark, Salon.com: An engrossing documentary follows two friends as they soar and crash with the dot-com wave. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: An eye-opening documentary. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: The pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: A cautionary tale very well-told. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: Read more

Amy Taubin, Village Voice: The editing is seamless, the drama builds throughout, and the arc of the central character is as shapely as in a Hollywood fiction. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Astute and entertaining. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Talk about your fabulous story arcs. Read more