Hugely self-indulgent and at times just plainly ridiculous, the most eye-opening aspect of Seduced and Abandoned is the very level of talent wrangled into contributing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2019

The film is funny, and sad, and insightful if you've no idea what a movie deal looks like, which I hadn't.

| Sep 5, 2018

Seduced and Abandoned isn't a deeply intellectual film, but it is a wry and dry road trip that's worth a watch, at least for the pleasure of Baldwin playing the role he was born to play, Alec Baldwin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2018

The film is at its very best when Baldwin informally cross-examines respected names such as Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Bernardo Bertolucci, James Caan and Jessica Chastain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2014

Seduced and Abandoned is, if nothing else, a film buff's delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2014

Their [Toback and Baldwin] film about the idea of the film is entertaining and diverting, even if there is also something slightly melancholy about this artificial pursuit of a cinematic phantasm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2014

It's funny stuff, yet the real nuggets here are when [Alec] Baldwin defaults to standard doco-mode and asks an impressive range of people...about the harsh realities of working in the world's most expensive entertainment artform.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2014

An amusing and, at times, genuinely revealing doco - albeit one with distinctively niche appeal, and cloaked in an air of unmistakable self-satisfaction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2014

As a film trade journalist in the 80s and 90s I covered the Cannes film festival 20 times, and seduced and abandoned is how I always felt...It's like three different docos slapped together, none of them complete and coherent - or satisfying

| May 3, 2014

It's an odd film but an entertaining one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

Even the overarching quasi-comic format is old hat, having been done far better by Morgan Spurlock in The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2013

Although this isn't as cinematic as Keanu Reeves' Side by Side, last year's documentary about the industry's transition from celluloid to digital, it feels honest,

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2013

It feels honest, with Baldwin admitting he's sometimes trusted people he shouldn't have.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2013

Nice try, guys, but no deal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2013

Anyone interested in how movies get made will love this feisty behind-the-scenes documentary, which uses sharp comedy to explore the messy business side of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2013

A funny and insightful must for movie fans.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2013

Droll, watchable, wittily sobering.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2013

Explores the present-day realities of film financing and offers insightful comments on the film industry in general, as well as a meditation on the power of cinema and death itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2013

Jolly good fun, even if it doesn't exactly manage to fulfil its wonky remit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2013

It's a spikily funny, endlessly enlightening watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2013