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I Am a Sex Addict

EMAILPRINTIFC Films

I Am a Sex Addict reviews
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7.1 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Caveh Zahedi

Directed by: Caveh Zahedi

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 5, 2006
DVD: September 12, 2006

Running Time: 98 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Rebecca Lord, Emily Morse, Amanda Henderson, Alexandra Guerineaud, Katarina Fabic, Corinna Chan, Greg Watkins, and Caveh Zahedi

Autobiographical filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has made a cult career of his unabashed willingness to be vulnerable on camera. I Am a Sex Addict, a comic reconstruction of his ten-year struggle with sex addiction, is one of his most ambitious, hilarious confessions yet. (IFC Films)

What The Critics Said

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

There's no other film like it. It's embarrassingly frank and self-revealing, sometimes funny, sometimes creepy, sometimes both.

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83

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Zahedi isn't afraid to put himself out there, even when his thoughts and actions are profoundly unflattering; his self-effacement makes the film a reflection on narcissism and misogyny rather than an exercise in both.

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80

Village Voice Jim Ridley

Caveh Zahedi's one-of-a-kind movie--a funny, inventive, ground-shifting hybrid of essay film, mea culpa, and pathological real-life romantic farce--aims for truth by wrecking its own verisimilitude.

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75

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Zahedi is ruefully funny and savage in his self-exposure.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Although there's nothing funny about addiction, Zahedi - a thin, bug-eyed fellow with the air of an R. Crumb sad sack - brings wit and self-deprecation to his tale of obsession and woe.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Zahedi's search for fulfillment is depleting, like throwing good sex after bad. The more we learn about the hole in his soul, the more vivid his misogamy becomes.

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70

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

This deconstructive, minimalist comedy, like his 1990 "A Little Stiff" and 1994 "I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore," re-creates events with the vain self-deprecation of one of his role models, Woody Allen.

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70

Variety Deborah Young

Hits its stride from the opening scenes and continues hilariously for a while, before declining into more of same. Its undeniable appeal lies in shocking frankness shackled to irony, a combo that should attract indie lovers with psychoanalytic leanings and droll senses of humor.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Technically, I Am a Sex Addict is a stellar achievement, as it coaxes viewers to accompany Zahedi down avenues of sexual desire that have had little frank exposure on film.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

A confessional film that's almost too confessional--is like getting buttonholed by a casual acquaintance at a party and then subjected to a flood of highly intimate revelations that just don't stop.

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63

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Zahedi has been compared to Woody Allen, and he shares Allen's neurotic sense of entitlement and navel-gazing fascination with his own sexual peccadilloes. Whether you find either man funny or infuriating depends in large part on whether you identify more with their narcissistic quests for self-knowledge or the collateral damage left in their wakes.

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The way he presents his romantic history is both clever and entertaining, but after a while the story becomes tediously familiar.

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60

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

This film is an inevitable product of our age, and enjoyable, right up to whatever your ickiness threshold is.

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60

The New York Times Nathan Lee

The movie is a minor triumph of sincerity, neatly skirting the pitfalls of narcissism and unexamined misogyny. It never mugs for our good will, only our witness, which it rewards with honesty and wit.

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50

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

While some may bail early, those who stay to the end are likely to dwell on Zahedi's unwavering (some would say unrelenting) belief in his own artistry, as well as the film's many funny, quotable lines.

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50

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

What this is remains mysterious after a single viewing, but not so mysterious as to inspire a second.

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40

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

As for the overriding reason to see the film, that's easy. Lighten Zahedi's complexion, stuff him in a fright wig, and this fellow would be a ringer for Harpo Marx.

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25

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Now that even Woody Allen has stopped making "Woody Allen movies," you would think that wannabes would move on, too.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Tracy R. gave it a7:
A minor masterpiece of tone.

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