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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutTime OutThe film makes a compelling case for the damage wrought by business-funded feel-good activities that turn attention away from the disease, as well as using funds for endless drug research while ignoring the toxic environmental factors.
- 75Slant MagazineBill WeberSlant MagazineBill WeberA righteously outraged documentary targeting the "warm and fuzzy" iconography of the breast cancer fundraising bureaucracy and its camouflage of corporate priorities.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyPink Ribbons, Inc. is unabashed advocacy filmmaking. In spite of improved mortality rates and scientific advances, few women in the film will acknowledge that pink-ribbon-financed research has done any good at all.
- Pink Ribbons, Inc. viewers looking for an evenhanded discussion may be disappointed.
- You can't cure what you don't understand is one of the film's sobering messages.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeIt's easy to imagine exhibitors running scared from the documentary, but audiences who find it will be rewarded with a serious and provocative film.
- 67The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt's a crude, angry battering ram of a film, much more concerned with counter-messaging than aesthetics, but it gets the job done.
- 63St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsA colorful indictment of corporate infestation, but it's missing a prescription.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThough leaving us with many more questions than answers, this well-intentioned blur of accusations, advertising clips and pink-washed events nevertheless deserves to be seen.
- 60NPRMark JenkinsNPRMark JenkinsProvocative yet far from definitive, Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a critique of "breast-cancer culture." It could even be called a blitz on pink-ribbon charities and their corporate partners - though to use that term would be to emulate the war and sports metaphors the documentary rejects.