Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Sep 1, 2025 3/4

Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) unearth plenty of archival material and shoot yards of new interviews to add some perspective to the saga of Deep Throat.

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Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing Feb 3, 2020

[S]o much of the material is served up with a wink and "a giggle," the possibilities for real revelation are scarce.

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Miles Fielder The List Apr 24, 2019 3/5

A candid portrait of an America reasserting its conservatism in the 1970s and attempting to crush the 60s-spawned counterculture.

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Rob Nelson City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Aug 21, 2009

Three days after President Nixon brought a halt to military operations in Vietnam, another offensive maneuver was just beginning in Minneapolis.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com May 16, 2009 B

This keen look at the most successful independent film ever made describes how the film's distribution and profits were taken over by the mob, and how its director and actors were affected be the social and political powers that sought to use it as a tool

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Feb 3, 2008 3/4

A polemic on America, and its incapability to be accepting of sexuality by demonizing and stigmatizing the act...

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Prairie Miller Long Island Press Jun 2, 2007

Move over, Alfred Kinsey. Apparently the unusually avid sex researcher's knack for shaking up the gatekeepers of traditional moral values, may have been a mere dress rehearsal for Deep Throat a few decades later.

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Rex Roberts Film Journal International Feb 22, 2007

As an exercise in nostalgia...Inside Deep Throat is amusing

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Kurt Loder MTV Feb 7, 2006 3/4

Funny and saddening.

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Nick De Semlyen Empire Magazine Jan 7, 2006 4/5

A sharp documentary that has comedy, tragedy and, yes, a glimpse of Linda Lovelace's party trick.

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Pete Vonder Haar Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 2.5/5

Well-crafted and, in places, highly informative, but with the exception of some of the original film's hardcore sex scenes and the aforementioned Mob angle, there's little we haven't been exposed to before (no pun intended).

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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Nov 18, 2005 B+

Financed by the mafia, always there when you need them most.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Nov 3, 2005

At once amusingly entertaining and yet searingly revealing, Inside Deep Throat is documentary gold

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Scott Tobias AV Club Sep 26, 2005

Bailey and Barbato can only scratch the Boogie Nights-influenced surface, but they cover the ABCs of pornography with undeniable zip.

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David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com Sep 20, 2005 3/5

Clunky and forgettable as a documentary, Inside Deep Throat succeeds entirely thanks to its subject matter

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Brian Orndorf FilmJerk.com Sep 5, 2005 B

An engrossing journey into a bizarre moment in American culture.

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Josh Ralske All Movie Guide Aug 4, 2005 6/10

...with its 1970s-style groovy graphics and tittering adolescent's view of sexuality, [it] has a willfully disreputable tone, but it provides surprising insight.

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Ken Tucker New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 18, 2005

[A] valuable document of a cultural shift.

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Harry Guerin RTÉ (Ireland) Jul 15, 2005 3/5

An interesting, but rarely moving, film.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Jun 11, 2005 4/5

An entertaining moustaches-and-all documentary that tells an engaging story and draws some thought-provoking parallels.

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