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55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Sly, swift, succinct -- and very sexy.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    Superbly acted, without a trace of coyness and with considerable heat.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Stratton
    70
    Full of charm, entertaining enough as it unfolds, good looking, but not especially memorable in retrospect.
  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    60
    For his first feature in 15 years, Spanish filmmaker Eloy de la Iglesia has made a witty, unsentimental class comedy.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jorge Morales
    60
    We'd gladly give ourselves over to the literate if chatty script and the generous helpings of Bulgarian beefcake, but our interest flags the moment Biba puts his clothes back on.
  6. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    60
    Eloy de la Iglesia, who directed Bulgarian Lovers, has a light and witty touch, reminiscent of his countryman Pedro Almodóvar...But he needed a better screenplay.
  7. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Hank Sartin
    60
    All in all it's pretty lurid, but it delivers what it promises.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    Ultimately suffers from an overabundance of plot and a paucity of depth, but it does provide some fleeting comic pleasures along the way.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Joe Brown
    50
    Sly, stylishly cynical dark farce.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    De la Iglesia's years of filmmaking experience are obvious in the film's formal touches -- his transitions between scenes and time frames are smooth and very stylish.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    25
    The gay sex scenes that punctuate Eloy de la Iglesia's limp Spanish comedy, Bulgarian Lovers, are frequent and graphic, and it often seems as if the lackluster story exists solely to showcase them.
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