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55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    Christensen simultaneously avoids all the cliches that might have been heaped upon her beautifully rendered characters and roots their travails in everything that makes for a good soap: tragedy, tears, sexual tension, misplaced letters and a slightly sardonic voice-over that teases the plot lines like the old-fashioned, "tune in tomorrow" narrator of yesteryear.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    75
    An amusing melodrama.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    70
    Casts an entrancing spell thanks to understated perfs by leads and Christensen's featherlight touch with Kim Fupz Aakeson's screenplay.
  4. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    60
    If Christensen's conventional plot is somewhat at odds with her downbeat realism, the idea that these characters are willing to fight like cats and dogs, and destroy each other and themselves, to avoid confronting their intense attraction to each other is totally convincing.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    So sensitively acted you can almost buy its premise that love (in this case, neighborly affection and dependence) might rewire sexuality.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    30
    The movie strands you in two miserable flats with these cliche-ridden characters and a static love story that is as predictable as it is pedestrian.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Relentlessly grim.
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