Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon Reviews
Top CriticWhether it's credulity or audience cynicism, Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon has a problem, and good vibrations won't solve it.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Metromix.com
A nice story with no rough edges and little of the proper context. Fine viewing for high school business class but nothing more.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Less a documentary than a relentlessly upbeat nonprofit infomercial...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Spending more observational time with her smart, resilient and stirringly positive subjects -- even seeing less-edited footage of their business plan speeches -- might have helped sell her inspirational story.
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| Original Score: 2/5
L.A. Weekly
This may be an admirable competition, but that doesn't make this movie less self-serving.
AV Club
Ten9Eight will induce shivers of excitement in free-market proponents who get off on watching ambitious, money-minded young people pull themselves up by their bootstraps and set out to become future titans of industry.
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| Original Score: C
Boston Phoenix
There's no build-up or suspense leading to the final showdown, and the details of the projects fly by without registering.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Common Sense Media
Docu features teen CEOs beating poverty, drugs, violence.
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's the type of film you might expect to see at a fund-raising dinner or a convention banquet, not in a commercial theater. That said, it's a very well-made piece of boosterism.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Director Mary Mazzio's film, part documentary and part public-service announcement ... may prompt a discussion of totally revamping standard curriculum.
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| Original Score: 3/5
WaffleMovies.com
Showcases entrepreneurs even Michael Moore would celebrate - high school kids with really great ideas like cake on a stick!
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| Original Score: 3/4
Kansas City Star
It's all very uplifting. It might even move some youngsters to start their own businesses.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Hollywood & Fine
Mazzio feels the beating heart of the striver and, as a result, Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon never drags, even as it offers an important message to audiences.
