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59 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    A must-see.
  2. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    75
    Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    Catches you with a creepy sucker punch.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Elliott Stein
    70
    The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Robert Dominguez
    63
    Only mildly interesting.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Hannah Brown
    63
    Talky, overlong and, ultimately, just as predictable and repetitive as the maddening relationship it depicts.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.
  10. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Energetic acting and directing make it a less exasperating experience than it might have been.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned.
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