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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinGripping...It’s a tough, distressing film, yet in the measured hands of directors Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt, its emotional and humanistic qualities transcend the kind of exploitive defaults that could have made this a punishing, eye-popping horror show.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreEye-opening and damning, American Relapse is a blunt force look at the “cycle” of opioid addiction and the ways this American epidemic has been monetized by those with an eye towards making a buck out of any bad thing that happens.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeWhatever its shortcomings, American Relapse deepens our sense of the catastrophe caused by opioid overprescription and over-availability.
- 60VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerThe aesthetic devices used by the directors to embellish their material — including educational and archival videos, split-screens, slow-motion, time-lapse footage, and lingering close-ups of needles and money — are a bit too self-consciously stylish for their own good. Nonetheless, their film captures the recurring nightmare of substance abuse.