85
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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThat rarest of art documentaries, one that actually leaves viewers with a better sense of the gifted versus the phony.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAn 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.
- 100Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranSubversive, provocative and unexpected, Exit Through the Gift Shop 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.
- 91The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayA documentary that doubles as a comic thriller, and it’s as entertaining as it is thought-provoking.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterHugely entertaining documentary challenges conventional concepts of legitimate art and the creative process.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNarrated by Rhys Ifans with the dryness of a dessicated toad, Exit Through the Gift Shop is both an exhilarating testament to serendipity and an appalling testament to art-world inanity.
- 80VarietyVarietyA raucously entertaining postmodern survey of guerrilla street art that appears to be one thing, only to fold back on itself and examine would-be filmmaker Thierry Guetta instead.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceNot just the definitive portrait of street-art counterculture, but also a hilarious exposé on the gullibility of the masses who embrace manufactured creative personas.
- 80Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThis faux-documentary is droll, aerosol-thin and ultrameta.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleA fascinating and entertaining glimpse into the world of high-level and socially conscious graffiti artists?