A sharp documentary that has comedy, tragedy and, yes, a glimpse of Linda Lovelace's party trick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2006

Bailey and Barbato can only scratch the Boogie Nights-influenced surface, but they cover the ABCs of pornography with undeniable zip.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

[A] valuable document of a cultural shift.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2005

Interviews with the surviving players, including porn stud Harry Reams ... make for entertaining viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2005

The absorption of Deep Throat into the political melodrama that was Watergate seems to have led to some grandiose statements in Messrs. Bailey and Barbato's documentary.

| Mar 31, 2005

It just doesn't go deep enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2005

A better film than its subject.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 4, 2005

Above all, the film is a lively, music-filled social history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Deep Throat bore an X certificate. Inside Deep Throat is an NC-17. Neither is suitable for grownups.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2005

Provides a lot of background information and period color, while arguing for the film's place as the breakthrough sex movie of all time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2005

The movie will set off a slew of new questions.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2005

A fascinating look back both at a time when sex wasn't discussed in polite circles, and at Deep Throat itself.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2005

Offers a diverting tale of erstwhile indie filmmaking and the power of porn to generate change -- both at the box office and in the bedroom.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2005

While brisk, informative, and entertaining, feels frustratingly sketchy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 15, 2005

It's a good blueprint for people who don't know about the movie and what a huge impact it had. It doesn't do much more than that.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2005

To me, at least, Inside Deep Throat felt drearily long (it's only about 90 minutes), and anyone who survived the anti-porn crusades of the '80s or the 'sex positive' porn of the '90s will find the arguments on all sides depressingly familiar.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2005

This feeble documentary ends up perpetuating the very hypocrisy it means to probe.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2005

Bailey and Barbetto have mined this all-American circus for all its mindbending absurdity and legitimized it with a who's who of cultural critics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2005

The free-speech agenda is so entrenched that the concept of pornography exploiting women seems to catch the directors flat-footed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005

This trip down memory lane seems to have no agenda and treats principals on both sides of the conflict with respect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005