Fast Food Fast Women
Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 11 out of 20
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Leslie Camhi
    70
    In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lisa Nesselson
    70
    Boasts engaging characters, inventive situations and a series of satisfying punchlines that will send viewers out with a smile.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
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  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    A warmhearted, hardworking little comedy that owes a lot of its charm to its modesty.
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  6. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    60
    One of those genially paced, character-driven indies, and succeeds as such very well.
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  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Despite a script that occasionally calls for some embarrassingly awkward lines, Kollek's cast generally acquits itself well.
  8. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    The film's power lies in the fact that the façade is crumbling on the actress even as she clings to it. That this is not a pathetic sight is due to the grit that we glimpse through the cracks. It's Barbie, becoming human.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Curt Fields
    40
    Tries hard to be charming but succeeds only occasionally.
  10. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Mark Caro
    38
    Kollek's fondness for whimsical plot turns adds still more random elements to a movie that at times seems edited by a blindfolded monkey.
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  12. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    38
    Painfully cute drama.
  13. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    33
    Dreary and dull.
  14. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Yet another of Israeli-born filmmaker Amos Kolleck's pointless, meandering tales of eccentric New Yorkers navigating the treacherous waters of love and survival.
  15. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    30
    It's not wrong to wish these actors were working in the service of a better script or more assured direction, but it's probably also possible to simply take pleasure in their performances.
  16. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
  17. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    Kollek is a fringe auteur who makes independent films the old fashioned way: no budget, static camera, a script that telegraphs its tiny, paste gem ironies.
  18. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    25
    Overly familiar, poorly cast and often annoyingly crude New York comedy that never finds its groove.
  19. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    20
    Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.
  20. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    20
    Fast Food Fast Women is "Sex and the City" in Payless shoes. An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.

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