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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

  • Starring: Shawn Ashmore
  • Summary: A novice nun (Sevigny) in South Africa, a black marketeer (Ling) in China and an HIV-positive porn star (Ashmore) in Canada provide three very different perspectives on the struggle against AIDS.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Negative: 4 out of 12
  1. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    100
    After reminding us that the AIDS crisis in the West is far from over in "The Event," Fitzgerald widened his scope with this much-needed perspective on the global dimensions the disease has achieved. Despite the importance and seriousness of the subject, there's plenty of Fitzgerald's brand of sly humor on hand, particularly in the scenes involving the Quebecoise porn industry.
  2. When 3 Needles premiered at Toronto last year, the stories were overlapping, in the style of "Babel" but without a unifying theme. It's less cumbersome as three separate stories, but they do not add up to much.
  3. Writer-director Thom Fitzgerald's ambitious but hopelessly inchoate AIDS drama is actually three separate, sequentially-told stories.

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