Critic Reviews

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  "Addicted" proves a strangely sad yet wildly compelling cautionary tale.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  A valuable reflection of contemporary celebrity culture - simply because it shows us how low we've fallen.

• Dennis Harvey, Variety

  Entertaining if ultimately depressing.

• John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

  Behind-the-scenes look at Anna Nicole Smith's swan song is barely more competent than the exploitation flick it examines.

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  [A] hapless, clueless, necrophiliac documentary ...

• Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

  Cheap-o, disingenuous ...

• Prairie Miller, Long Island Press

  So how much are attention addicts Giancola and Anna Nicole Smith alike as they weirdly bond away in his movie? Giancola was shrewd enough to foolproof his film with deliberate self-parody, while Smith succumbed to her own self-dehumanization.

• Ethan Alter, Television Without Pity

  Addicted to Fame is like a feature-length whine disguised as a documentary.

• Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

  The pitfalls of not knowing the difference between "notoriety" and "fame" were never clearer.

• Nathan Rabin, AV Club

  Judging by the film's alternately self-pitying, self-aggrandizing, and bitter tone, the schlock director is afflicted with a bizarre lack of self-consciousness to rival Smith's own impregnable wall of self-delusion.

• Nick McCarthy, Slant Magazine

  The cinematic equivalent of staging a disaster and then bitching about the mess.

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