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12/06/05
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Games People Play: New York (2004)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:15
Rotten:27
Average Rating:4.9/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Mar 12, 2004 Limited
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Reviews for Games People Play: New York
A clever, amusing, roundly enjoyable social experiment wrapped in colorful docu-tainment swaddling clothes.
05/03/04
The questions raised by this film can be unsettling at the very least, but it presents itself with no apologies, and that is why it is so successful.
03/16/04
What we’ve really seen calls into question not just the previous hour but everything reality fans have become accustomed to and sold repeatedly week-after-week.
03/03/04
A curious thing: a reality game show that plays us.
03/12/04
As an avid hater of reality television, the intelligence behind James Ronald Whitney's Games People Play was quite a surprise.
03/07/04
Definitely not for everyone and it may not be for anyone, but it is different -- and thanks to six attractive, likable actors, oddly riveting.
03/26/04
Part documentary, part parody, and part something indefinable, the film manages to succeed on its own terms and entertain on just about anyone's.
03/11/04
Top CriticPart of its absurd genius is that it’s never entirely clear what it is and what it isn’t, which leaves it up to each individual viewer to decide.
03/16/04
Proves that you don't need much money to make an absolutely fascinating reality movie, provided you are willing to exploit weirdos waiting for their moment in the limelight.
03/31/07
A pretty scathing satire of reality TV, including itself, which makes it both what it is, and a critique of what it is.
04/16/04
Top CriticIt's easy to hook into the 'Banzai!' how-low-can- we-get-people- to-stoop spirit.
03/25/04
Top Critic... a unique piece of work.
04/19/04
Top CriticJust interesting enough to relieve the embarrassment you deserve for enjoying it.
04/23/04
Top CriticA look at the fame machine, done with tongue in cheek, eyes open in wonderment and a brazen sense of playfulness that's hard to resist.
04/23/04
Interminable exploitation-fest that doesn't even come close to the worst of this stuff on TV.
03/11/04
If reality is made up of truth without deceit, there’s nothing real about Games, unless you count really bad and really awful.
04/23/04
Pornography has more integrity than James Ronald Whitney's total tease of a movie.
05/13/04
Top CriticEntertaining in a naked real world, train-wreck kind of way... the pranks are often funny, never actually cruel, but at the same time, there's something sad about these games.
05/14/04
doomed to late-night rotation on some high-digit, bargain-basement cable channel
03/11/04
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