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Metascore
32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFor sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year.
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternA thrillingly, thoroughly wonderful film.
- 88Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe coolest film in town offers industrial espionage, power struggles, thwarted romance, betrayal and suspense - and best of all, it's true.
- 80Village VoiceAmy TaubinVillage VoiceAmy TaubinHas all the hallmarks of a Pennebaker production. The editing is seamless, the drama builds throughout, and the arc of the central character is as shapely as in a Hollywood fiction.
- 80Film.comSean MeansFilm.comSean MeansThe result is a movie that turns the financial phenomenon of Web startups -- the crazy kids with ideas, and the crazier bankers with more money than sense -- into a moving human drama.
- 80TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelThis gripping documentary doesn't exactly say what went wrong, but the pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening.
- 80VarietyVarietyTopical film, which goes beyond its potentially dry diet of facts to incorporate the juicy human drama of Machiavellian manipulations, ambition, torn loyalties and crushing betrayal.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezIf nothing else, Startup.com is a pointed reminder that mixing business and friendship never, ever works.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickAn unforgettable portrait of a testosterone-driven era.