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76 out of 100

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9.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

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  • Starring: Billy Crudup
  • Summary: Stumbling across America in the 1970's, a young junkie (Crudup) searches for meaning in everything from sex and drugs to meetings with strangers.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    The latter element joins with Crudup's excellent acting to make this deliberately scruffy tale a worthwhile experience if you can handle its explicitly sordid subplots.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Cullum
    90
    Wildly funny bum's rush through the existentially absurd, self-engendered peaks and valleys of the junkie's lament.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    58
    Meanders as aimlessly as its drugged-out characters.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. MyronB.
    7
    Highly entertaining and genuinely funny, until the flash-bang sugary ending that eradicates everything before it.
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