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- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxWhether you conclude that this project is a brilliant hoax that exposes how the rapid transition from communism to a free market economy has created an ad addicted, consumer-mad culture in the Czech Republic, or simply a cruel joke, one thing is undeniable. It's a fascinating account.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe film did well at the local box office and has been shown at some 40 international festivals. Eat your heart out, Michael Moore.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsA small but droll big-box comedy.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceHey, Prague--you got punk'd! In this subversive Central European slice of reality TV, Czech film students Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda protest the kudzu creep of globalization with a stunt worthy of the Yes Men.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirOn one level, this is an altogether obvious lesson about market capitalism.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenWhen they discover they've been made fools of, they accept this performance event with surprising equanimity. There is a lot of grumbling but no riot. They get the joke.
- Czech Dream has an impish effectiveness. But what saves it from being an arrogantly aren't-we-clever? home movie is, refreshingly, the flimflammed masses themselves, lured as the bargain-hungry but left looking like cattle out for a graze.