Kurzweil's new movie does appear to have brought out some detractors, who play the man, not the film. We can guess Alex Beam's sympathies with his praise for Bill McKibben:
The only celebrity thinker who acquits himself with dignity is eco-pamphleteer Bill McKibben, who looks as if he has wandered into the wrong green room. McKibben expresses a healthy skepticism about Kurzweil’s finger-painted future.
But, it does seem inadequate to term a film 'narcissistic' if it includes a critical element. Narcissism requires a mirror, not peer review. So, off beam in his statement and reduced to accusing the film of name dropping:
What about “The Singularity Is Near?’’ The movie is codirected, written, and coproduced by Kurzweil, and features Kurzweil interacting with the Great Minds of the 1980s, such as Sherry Turkle, Mitch Kapor, Bill Joy, and Marvin Minsky, the latter actually a Great Mind of the 1960s and 1970s. Have you been wondering where Alan Dershowitz has been hiding? He plays a defense lawyer in the movie’s inane fictional subplot.
I suspect that this whole 'review' in the poorest sense of the word is off beam. There are better ways of telling us why this film may not be very good.