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Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 22 Sep 2010

A studiously airbrushed portrait of its subject, this obsequious biography of Hugh Hefner highlights his undeniable and important good works,…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Tom A (654) on 24 Aug 2010

Enjoyed the old footage of the playboy tv shows but the doc as a whole is too long and too one sided…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Tara Z (9) on 23 Aug 2010

I just saw this with my boyfriend…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 22 Aug 2010

The Playboy empire unabashedly lined up with liberal causes, bringing messages of racial tolerance, resistance to the military-industrial complex,…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for NPR (1,713) on 22 Aug 2010

If your sole image of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is that of a lanky, silk-jammied sybarite strolling the grounds of his mansion with a jiggling…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Aug 2010

A pop history lesson that holds you, but it's no deeper than an E! True Hollywood Story…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 19 Aug 2010

The Hefner we meet here is the likable rogue we already know…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 19 Aug 2010

One wants to find enlightenment - or at least entertainment - in this reconsideration of Playboy and of Hefner. But it's tainted…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Aug 2010

Yet as ridiculous as Hefner's life sometimes seems, he has been an exemplary citizen, as this documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Diana Saenger (322) for ReviewExpress.com (294) on 15 Aug 2010

A well-done story that reveals more about Hefner than most of us knew…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 12 Aug 2010

Stylistically, the documentary is generic: existing footage and talking head interviews with the addition of centerfolds and shots of classic…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Andy Klein (675) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Aug 2010

Berman's goal was to reveal the other side of Hugh Hefner that had not yet been portrayed in any of the prior documentaries about him…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Betsy Sherman (101) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 10 Aug 2010

Berman offers scant evidence that women's voices were heard in Hef's universe…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 10 Aug 2010

Even with Berman's halfhearted inclusion of a few angry feminists and appalled religious figures...it's hard to deny that Hefner might actually…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 05 Aug 2010

A marvelous documentary about the guy all other men are said to envy…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Kristal C (562) on 05 Aug 2010

A comprehensive and eye-opening doc about the life of a man known more for his lifestyle than his charitable and social work, which is too…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Eric R (1,431) on 31 Jul 2010

This film will enlighten the ignorant who think Hefner as merely an exploitative pornographer to show him as a leader of the civil rights movement…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Clay Cane (203) for BET.com (238) on 29 Jul 2010

The documentary goes above the groin, chronicling watershed moments in American history while telling the story of one of the greatest American…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 29 Jul 2010

If you think all there is to Hugh Hefner is a smoking jacket and a posse of blondes, this film will likewise strip that assumption…

Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 29 Jul 2010

Hugh Hefner has earned the gift of a fawning, non-confrontational greatest hits package and that's exactly what he's received, even if it's…

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