Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
Metascore
34 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 5 out of 9
view
per page
  1. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Ted Gideonse
    80
    Despite its bizarre intellectual project, Le Pecheur's film is seductive and shockingly sexy.
    All this critic's reviews
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    If not an entirely successful film, it's a bold and haunting one.
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Wants to appear bold and liberated, but it seems awfully solemn about the subculture it explores.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Leslie Camhi
    40
    It manages to be both ponderous and silly.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    30
    Seems stuck in reverse.
  7. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    30
    In trying to avoid moralizing or cheap sensationalizing, Didier sidestepped any energy force altogether and his film snoozes because of it.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    20
    Brain-dead.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    20
    Nearly toothless 1998 existential drama.
prev next
Page:
  • 1