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You may become a cinemaniac yourself after sitting through this beauty.
88
What Christlieb and Kijak do so well is keeping these folks from not seeming like loons.
80
A fun time and a must-see.
75
It would be easy to mock or patronize them. Cinemania does neither. They seem quite satisfied with their lives, which is more than can be said for a lot of people with more conventional lifestyles.
75
Both compelling and disturbing, this tragicomic documentary follows five dreamers as they pursue romance.
75
They talk warmly and with enthusiasm about certain titles, but I have the eerie feeling that they must be at a movie whether they enjoy it or not.
70
Built on a foundation of cinephilia, Cinemania is a valentine of sorts to this movie mecca (you have to love a city, and a film culture, that can sustain such bottomless appetites).
70
It's too short, and it doesn't delve deep enough. But it's thoroughly enjoyable.
70
The filmmakers aren't exactly cruel, but they focus on compulsion rather than passion, which by implication tends to tarnish the more intellectual and scholarly members of the breed.
67
A couple of the cinemaniacs are less defined than others, but the portrait that emerges is a detailed composite of life on the fringe.
