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28 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 7 out of 11
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    A vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    This skillfully made Italian heart-tugger was a success on home ground. Its star, Marco Filiberti, in an audacious writing and directing debut, has lots on his mind and much in his heart, and as a filmmaker displays a Douglas Sirkian flair for finding substance in melodrama.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    40
    Tries to be too many things, none very convincingly: plea for tolerance, docu-style character study, old-fashioned weepie.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    It can make for entertainingly silly viewing, but it should come as no surprise that the film's plea for tolerance and unexpectedly tragic ending -- an unfortunate throwback to the Dark Ages of gays in films -- rings equally hollow.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    This feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder. This is a vanity project, not so much acted as posed.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    30
    He's (Marco Filiberti) his own best audience, and Adored is best left to his own enjoyment.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Deborah Young
    30
    Slipping from fantasy to soap opera without any authorial control, pic's best hope is to be recognized as some kind of cult movie of badness.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    25
    Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American "gaysploitation" cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: John McMurtrie
    25
    This clumsy, self-indulgent film veers from comedy to tragedy and is told in flashbacks, with treacly diary entries and unconvincing "testimonies" from friends providing a window into the past.
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    20
    Adored stands at the crossroads where Telemundo and beefcake magazines collide, but for strangers to that intersection, the film's camp value is exceeded only by its tedium.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    20
    The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels. Filiberti's self-casting exacerbates this already shoddy melodrama: Frequent come-hither stares beaming from his patently sub-marquee mug provide one too many non-ironic "Zoolander" moments.
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