37
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldThe New York TimesDaniel M. GoldSome of this seems like stoner’s paranoia, and some of the film’s talking heads, mainly comedians, don’t make the best advocates. Over all, though, its experts... argue forcefully for decriminalization.
- 40Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamIt’s strongly anti-prohibition, and the film’s structure favors that bias.
- 40Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin TsaiDirector Brett Harvey has gotten the documentary look and format down pat, complete with generic and gratuitous nature and cityscape shots. Where he shows an amateurish hand is in the term-paper-like voice-over narration and the inclusion of underqualified talking heads.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweWhat new information The Culture High offers is almost entirely subsumed by its sprawling ambitions to make every conceivable connection to the marijuana debate, limiting both its reliability and its impact.
- 30VarietyGeoff BerkshireVarietyGeoff BerkshireThe film’s haphazard structure and freewheeling arguments only serve to reinforce tired pothead cliches — it’s paranoid, prone to starry-eyed dorm-room philosophizing, and it doesn’t know when to quit.