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46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 21
  3. Negative: 4 out of 21
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  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: F.X. Feeney
    87
    Though modest in scale, this romantic gem constitutes yet another superb leap in the evolution of Figgis' career.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    Intense, erotic and willful.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    75
    Fiery but turgid adaptation of the 1890 August Strindberg play.
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Staff [Not Credited]
    75
    August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    Figgis's film doesn't match its reach.
  6. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    75
    Effectively cast and shot with exciting immediacy.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    A torrid and surprisingly cinematic chamber piece.
  8. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    58
    Figgis never frees the play enough from the stage to fill the screen.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    A brutally claustrophobic battle of wits and will, whose cruel nature ultimately seems to turn on the audience.
  10. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    50
    An arid, uninvolving film that suffers from Burrows' miscasting as the vain Julie.
  11. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    50
    His [Director Mike Figgis's] techniques do make the film at least watchable.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: John Patterson
    50
    A solidly filmed great play.
  13. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Henry Cabot Beck
    50
    Using current hand-held camera technology to ape the political and esthetic sensibility of the 1960s.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    Figgis remains a compelling storyteller, holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance.
  15. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    The dialogue may be crisply idiomatic, but there's finally nothing realistic about the speed with which the characters hurtle through their mood swings and power plays.
  16. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Andrea C. Basora
    50
    It does justice to its source material -- and that may be the problem.
  17. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    40
    Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic
  18. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    This intense psycho-sexual drama doesn't easily lend itself to the camera.
  19. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    25
    As dreary an hour-and-a-half as you could ever want to spend at the movies.
  20. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    20
    Figgis's frenetic and grossly self-aggrandizing adaption of Strindberg's worse-for-wear two-hander about the battle between the sexes and the classes.
  21. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    10
    A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time.
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  1. AlanJ.
    9
    One of the best films I've ever seen. It's visually compelling, intense and superbly acted. An overwhelming directoral success!
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