What the Bleep Do We Know 2004

Critics score:
34 / 100

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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Sometimes What the #$*! Do We Know!? has the corny, ham-handed feel of an old 16mm educational movie, but I'm not sure how intentional this is. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Shot and acted with all the skill of a late-night infomercial. Read more

Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: Here's the mystery for me. How did questions that started out so vast and existential swirl down into something so small and loopy and pathetic? Read more

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: Both modern science for dummies and a feisty extension of our ongoing religious debate. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: A ponderous documentary. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Like taking college physics from a really entertaining professor. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A terribly self-satisfied lecture about the ubiquity of quantum physics in spiritual life. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: As entertainment, the movie is a mixed bag. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Ultimately it's limited by its compulsion to knock our socks off at every turn and to compare itself with Alice in Wonderland. Read more

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I kept wanting to change channels, so repetitive and stupefying is all the pseudo-mystical psycho-banality. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: A film that dares to treat people as smart and deeply curious rather than dumb and deeply cynical. Read more

Margaret Wertheim, L.A. Weekly: In this genre-blending cocktail of drama, documentary and computer-graphic animation, quantum physics is so subordinated to the service of an anything-goes mysticism that little remains of the science except the terminology. Read more

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Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Quantum Bull-Bleep would be a more apt title for the conclusions that the movie draws. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Part perky educational film, part goofy New Age recruitment effort, What the Bleep Do We Know? switches between abstract and practical modes. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: An impenetrable human parable and a hallucinogenic animated cartoon. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If you're looking for an entertaining exploration of some mind-stretching issues, this film is a good place to start. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A pretty good documentary. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The film with the year's most unfortunate title also happens to be a candidate for the year's worst film. Read more

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Robert Koehler, Variety: The goulash suggests a scaled-down but feature-length edition of what could have been an Imax film (and certainly would have benefited from Imax's usual under-an-hour running time) or, worse, one of those deadly educational films of yore. Read more

Benjamin Strong, Village Voice: A turgid, Enya-synth infomercial for New Age enlightenment. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Feels like a cross between a PBS special hosted by a series of low-rent Deepak Chopras and an infomercial for self-help audio tapes. Read more