The campers, of course, hate it, and many seem to suggest it becomes basically another game to them. Figure it out, get released, go back to the computer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2015

The film is fascinating and often darkly funny, but it's hard not to wish for some actual analysis to flesh out the many scenes of grim people in gray rehab.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2014

The human stories in "Web Junkie" are instantly identifiable, stories of a world where everyone has been brought closer together and simultaneously kept apart.

| Aug 6, 2014

The kids are as uncommunicative as teenage boys tend to be in every country, and shots of them marching in unison or looking sadly out from behind chain-link fences are only compelling for so long.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 6, 2014

Without a frame of footage nor a single interview presented from outside the camp, the documentary shows a capitalist nightmare that accords its victims zero wiggle room.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2014

The film lacks either the immersive intensity that would galvanize emotions or a context that would provide enlightenment. Its brief tour of an unpleasant corner of reality feels less revelatory than voyeuristic.

| Aug 5, 2014

The slow (albeit unevenly paced) unveiling of the boys' stories is persuasive and chilling. Internet addiction is real.

| Aug 5, 2014

Shlam and Medalia haven't constructed the film particularly artfully... but Web Junkie is a case where the access is so unexpected and revelatory that it's a wonder just to have the footage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2014

Web Junkie glides over its most provocative idea-namely, that Chinese youth, often without siblings due to population control, might be making those attachments the only way they know how.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2014

The film is less interested in exploring the questionable science behind the program's practice. It is also uninterested in challenging allegations that the boys are disconnected from reality.

| May 30, 2014

Astute enough to consider the social conditions that nurture such addictions, Web Junkie falters when an underdeveloped rehab success story is ushered in at the end like a quick fix designed to numb the pain.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2014

Web Junkie could almost be viewed as absurd comedy, if it weren't so grimly serious.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 29, 2014

A bizarre and entertaining documentary about China's attempts to reprogram its Internet-addicted youth.

| Jan 27, 2014

Directors Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia get a remarkable amount of access to one of 400 rehabilitation camps set up in China.

| Jan 26, 2014

Web Junkie is a little sad, a little funny and a little scary. I'd say that I wish it had been a little more provocative, but I'm sure conversations after screenings will serve some of that purpose and those are conversations worth having.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 22, 2014