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When Will I Be Loved
IFC Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality, nudity and language
Starring
Neve Campbell,
Fred Weller,
Dominic Chianese,
Karen Allen,
Barry Primus,
Mike Tyson,
and
Lori Singer
This hip, scintillating, post-feminist film takes a classic Hollywood form -- that of a leading lady as black widow -- and brings it edgy new life. (IFC Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
James Toback
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| DIRECTED BY: |
James Toback
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 25, 2005
Theatrical: September 10, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
83 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Campbell's performance is carnal, verbally facile, physically uninhibited and charged with intelligence.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie morphs into a deconstructed remake of "Indecent Exposure" and it's downright riveting, with Campbell doing her best acting to date.

70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Far from a complete success: It takes too long to get to its central premise and, once there, too often meanders away from it. But Campbell is close to astonishing whenever she's onscreen.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Campbell and her character are willing to take chances. But Toback's tangled noirish plot, with Vera as a post-feminist femme fatale, isn't particularly clever or original.

50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
In much the same way that Godard used heroines like Anna Karina or Bardot, Toback showcases Campbell's face as a placard of unknowability--a quality he recognizes as inherently feminine. The (inadvertent) question we are left with is, How much is there to know about her anyway?

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The structure of When Will I Be Loved seems deliberately flimsy, and many of its details don't add up. But as a contemporary fable about getting and spending in the new gilded age, When Will I Be Loved strikes a chord that echoes.

50
Variety
Robert Koehler
Campbell's performance is attuned to the extremes of unnerving calm and intensely erotic; unlike the pic, she pulls it off.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
With its improvisatory tone and loose, rambling structure, which often approaches a total breakdown of coherence, the story takes about half an hour to emerge.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A slim idea for a pulp-fiction short story padded out to 81 minutes with random encounters and celebrity sightings.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
More wacky than wack.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A ripe psychosexual compost heap of a drama that emits a provocative scent of rot and nonsense.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Beyond the "hell hath no fury" angle that overlays the story, When Will I Be Loved amounts to nothing more than another repository for kinky Tobackisms: Seen one (and the one to see remains 1978's Fingers), seen them all.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Another art film that's more pretentious than it needs to be.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Toback is a smart guy with kinky tastes who has nothing left but to tempt actors into performing in his sex fantasies.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Though once capable of writing distinct characters, Toback now populates his pictures with one-dimensional conceits who all talk like undereducated hustlers, from college professors to bottom feeders and international lions of business.

30
Film Threat
Christopher Zinsli
Something in Tobacks approach to the subject of sex, somehow both lecherous and detached, makes it tough to get a handle on the film.

30
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
It's unfortunate that, nudity and all, this is one of Toback's absolute worst efforts.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Slapdash plot, paper-thin characters, misogynist undertones, and mechanical crosscutting are all soft-core standbys.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The whole enterprise is a colossal waste of everyone's time.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
When Will I Be Loved would rate no stars except for Campbell's brave, totally committed performance -- which deserves a far better movie than this.

20
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's trivial and narcissistic and ultimately rather sordid.

12
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Most atrocious movies build into their badness, as lacks of talent, ideas, self-confidence, or a total hatred of an audience, are revealed. This one gets it out of the way up front and never looks back.

10
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Toback has hit a new low. The candor and shrugging good humor Toback, at his best, used to show has been replaced by a repellent slurpiness: The whole picture seems coated with a slimy sheen of drool.


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