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43 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    A diabolically clever psychological suspense movie.
  2. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    67
    Worth a look.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    63
    Laced with a venomous wit, and turning progressively creepier as it unfolds, writer-director Jon Reiss' movie offers a black-humored study of suppressed rage, sexual gamesmanship, domination and subordination.
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  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Things take an unexpected turn into far grimmer territory when the wormy Robert finally turns.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    One of those potentially interesting movies that takes its sweet time getting to the point - by which time many audience members will likely have bailed out or dozed off.
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  6. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    50
    A weakly performed rehash of master-slave role-reversal tales.
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  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    50
    An engagingly grim psychological thriller.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    Well acted, but it doesn't enrich its metaphor beyond giving an old story a sour contemporary resonance.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    50
    This watchable 1998 psychothriller deflects its cliches with canted angles, metonymic cropping, and a creeping pace, making it as much a parsing of "Twilight Zone"-brand irony as an example of it.
  10. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    25
    Since there's no suspense whatsoever, we're simply stuck with awful people doing awful things to each other.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    25
    It's a bitter pill to swallow, featuring a quartet of unsympathetic characters and an unrelenting air of misanthropy.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    20
    Reiss guides the film with a firm hand, ratcheting up the tension and ably guiding his actors. It's his protagonists that undo the film, making it a chore to sit through.
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