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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Holly Willis
    80
    The elegant gambol through ideas, combined with Gordon's clear love of luminous motion -- literally -- is a welcome treat.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    What counts here is the acute psychological validity with which Gordon evokes a coming of age that's seen with a darkly outrageous sense of humor--and no small amount of compassionate detachment.
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    Fine acting and creative directing lend three-dimensional life to this absorbing story, which blends dreamlike elements with sharply etched drama and touches of pure cinematic ingenuity.
  4. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Henry Cabot Beck
    70
    Has moments of terrific lucidity, even brilliance.
  5. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    70
    Gordon is so visually and stylistically inventive and the actors are so skillful that you aren't likely to lose interest.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    67
    The one thing about Luminous Motion that can be said with certainty is that Bette Gordon should be making more movies.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Petrakis
    63
    Never regains its raw power once the sultry Unger retreats from the front seat of her Chevy to the privacy of her suburban bedroom.
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  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    63
    An ambitious film that sticks with you long after you have left the theater -- because of both what it achieves and what it does not.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    60
    If Lloyd's performance is the film's near-fatal flaw, Unger's is its saving grace.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    It's a bit like "The Sixth Sense," but without the melodramatic comfort of the supernatural.
  11. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    58
    Although Lloyd's performance (reminiscent in mannerism to Haley Joel Osment), sometimes drags, it's the only real defect in a surprisingly effective film that doesn't stoop to offer easy answers.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Has its moments, but overall it's depressing.
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  13. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    50
    Its tone is stilted and mannered -- and most of it seems a bit loony.
  14. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    Gordon makes the mistake of preserving Bradfield's highly idiosyncratic dialogue -- dazzling on the page, deadly in any actor's mouths -- and the otherwise talented Lloyd is miscast.
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