Startup.com Reviews
Documentary best for teens interested in business.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002
Distilled from over 400 hours of filmed material, Startup.com offers continued evidence of the essential nature of the documentary format.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2001
The pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2001
Talk about your fabulous story arcs.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2001
Astute and entertaining.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2001
Startup.com humanizes the dot-com goldrush that in the last few years has left a handful of millionaires and hundreds of go-for-broke paupers in its wake.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 25, 2001
The best movies, it's often said, are happy accidents. Startup.com proves the dictum while being smart and responsive enough to react to the impending train wreck.
Full Review | May 25, 2001
Nearly two years in the making, Startup.com nevertheless arrives in theaters feeling almost like breaking news.
Full Review | May 25, 2001
. As an inside view of the bursting of the Internet bubble, Startup.com is definitive.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2001
Startup.com brings you to an unstaged, evolving economic jungle where survivors are very fortunate -- and friendships are at high risk.
Full Review | May 24, 2001
Both because of its emotional urgency and its timely subject, this small story that tells the much bigger story of the New Economy's bubble and burst is less a documentary than it is breaking news.
Full Review | May 24, 2001
Combining the immediacy of the Internet and the wise perspective of history, Startup.com proves that investing in real-life drama can reap rich dividends.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 24, 2001
An eye-opening documentary.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2001
Seems too raw -- unedited and undifferentiated.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2001
Some people are finding it difficult to live with the idea that Kaleil could put his employees through hell, lose $60 million of other people's money, and wind up a movie star.
Full Review | May 21, 2001
Benefits from everything about the Internet with few of the insufferable tech-head side effects.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2001
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| May 11, 2001
With newcomer Noujaim (who was a Harvard roommate of Tuzman), they once again pull off a coup in what is essentially an art of creative noticing.
| May 11, 2001