37
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe film ultimately works best as a daughter's heartfelt tribute to an enormously devoted and emotionally generous parent. Unfortunately, that's just not enough to, well, connect us to the bigger picture.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoYour heart will go out to Shlain, who clearly adored her father. But other parts of Connected may remind you of an Al Gore lecture.
- There are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only Connected had a stronger center of gravity.
- 40Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerLike Shlain's hand-written diagram in which lines twist and knot while linking various subjects, the film resembles not a coherent thesis but a tangle of semi-related ideas.
- Much lip service is given to the global village in Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death and Technology, yet it constantly drifts back into a Shlain family slideshow.
- 12Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneOne of the film's main problems is the fact that Shlain is so invested in connecting her father's scientific findings... with an astonishingly linear history of the world that she fails to see the more private connections that flicker in and out of her verbose voiceover.