Review of Reincarnated (2012) by David Jenkins for Little White Lies — 21 Mar 2013

Lavish PR mission or genuine example of creative renewal? Beats us...

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This review of Reincarnated (2012) was written by David Jenkins and published by Little White Lies on 21 Mar 2013.

Reincarnated has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Patrick Peters (101) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 17 Mar 2013

It features more weed than a pot-warming party at Bill & Ben's but offers little more than spliff-glazed promotion for Snoop's reggae reincarnation…

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By T'cha Dunlevy (129) for Montreal Gazette (210) on 28 Mar 2013

The film is most convincing as a musical travelogue, drifting through clouds of weed smoke toward some form of Doggy-Lion enlightenment…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 31 Aug 2017

Anything beyond 'Jah' and 'peace and love' is lost in a fog of weed but classic moments such as a perma-stoned Snoop trying to scrump a grapefruit…

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By Mitch H (134) on 06 Jul 2013

Snoop Lion uses this documentary to show a culture that many will never understand and one that comes off as more an excuse to be permafried…

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By Malcolm Jack (3) for The List (2,018) on 25 Mar 2013

All told - and this film knows exactly who its audience is - a reminder of what famously enriching company habitual stoners are…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Mar 2013

The film is as lightweight as the ganja-puffing is plentiful, little more than a vanity project that allows its subject to wax philosophical…

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By Miriam Bale (64) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Mar 2013

Director Andy Capper crafts a surprisingly moving story, particularly in Snoop’s reactions to the deaths of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Mar 2013

More honest than you might expect a promotional piece such as this to be, but less self-investigative than you might like, you come away thinking…

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By Freddy H (68) on 25 Aug 2013

Calvin Broadus goes on a pilgrimage to Jamaica, what do you think is going to happen? You got it, a inordinate amount of of smoking…

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