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36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 29
  3. Negative: 13 out of 29
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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Stefan Ulstein
    83
    A thinker's film about the ever-shifting paradigm of man-woman relationships.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    Blunt, alternately prurient, funny and depressing.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    One of the most quietly powerful endings in recent memory.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    Like an episode of "Friends" where the entire cast has been given aphrodisiacs and locked up.
  5. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    63
    The kind of date movie that should do a lot to promote celibacy.
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  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    Beneath its glitz, poses, and pub crawlers and club prowlers, it's an old-fashioned morality tale.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    Suffers from a fatal misapprehension. It thinks it is about date rape, when actually it is about alcoholism.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    An ultra-stylized, empty mess.
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  9. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    50
    All the young talent in Hollywood is not enough to energize a movie that takes forever to get nowhere.
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  10. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    Constant shifts between past and present and between individual stories creates varying perspectives that add dimension and insight to material that might play tritely if presented in straightforward narrative form.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    This flashy and ultimately conservative morality tale relies on shockingly frank sex talk to cover the fact that the characters are shockingly poorly developed.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Sarah Hepola
    40
    A bleak, depressing film.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Cullum
    40
    A creepy clinical voyeurism and condescending empathy that can't help but alienate its intended audience.
  14. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    40
    Flirts with the idea of insight.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    40
    I haven't got the slightest idea whether these characters are meant as satirical targets or as a reasonably fair cross-section of Today's Youth.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    40
    More focused on surface than true revelation.
  17. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Staff [Not Credited]
    38
    Audiences everywhere will tune out long before the projector does.
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  18. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    34
    Plays out like a raunchy, substandard WB soap.
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  19. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    30
    A grim, sour view of single life.
  20. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    30
    Trash.
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  21. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    30
    Unhampered by imagination and driven solely by libido.
  22. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Esther Pan
    30
    Rapidly veers towards tired 80's territory rather than offering anything new and fresh.
  23. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    30
    Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  24. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Tom Cappello
    30
    All it really propagates is overly dramatic scenes plagiarized from last month's high school date rape seminar.
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  25. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    25
    It's not the sort of movie you watch; it's the sort that assaults you.
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  26. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Bruce Fretts
    25
    A distasteful zeitgeist cocktail tracking the booze-fueled sexcapades of eight repellent L.A. singles.
  27. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    20
    With any luck, Body Shots will quickly slide into video obscurity.
  28. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    20
    Fires nothing but blanks.
  29. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    10
    Vomitous.
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