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A road trip through medicalized America, examining the pervasiveness of pharmaceutical drugs through the lives of eight very unique characters.
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| PopMattersCynthia FuchsOff Label brilliantly exposes how the many routes from faith and trust to desperation and despair are varied and sometimes hard to trace. |
| The Film StageJohn FinkOff Label is a bleak, important wake-up call, giving voice to those that have been to hell and back. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenWith its focus on intimate detail, Off Label is not a conventional "issue film" reaching for conclusions. Palmieri and Mosher have taken on a huge and urgent topic, and their work's impact rests on their refusal to tell viewers how to feel. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohImportant, hard-hitting documentary about the pharmaceutical industry, its greed and the serious human havoc it wreaks. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisDon't discount October Country filmmakers Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's tragicomically beautiful art-doc, which sensitively favors unflinching testimonials and visually impressionistic observations over journalistic activism. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThough it lacks the specific argumentative point of view that might have carried it into the mainstream, its sympathetic approach to subjects offers a compelling human perspective on questions that get too little attention in debates about health care. |
| Slant MagazineBill WeberSincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D. |
| The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe film’s stacked stories naggingly lack a cohesive train of thought beyond the often harmful pervasiveness of pharmaceuticals in American society. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyHypocrisy aside, Off Label’s biggest problem is that, for a movie that features a lot of people talking about a lot of things, it doesn’t have a lot to say; its scatterbrained, switching-between-browser-tabs structure guarantees that no idea gets developed very far. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallDespite some artful visuals and harrowing testimony, this 2012 advocacy documentary suffers from a lack of focus. |