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47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    63
    Imagine that, instead of trying to solve his wife's murder, the amnesiac character in Christopher Nolan's "Memento" had gone on "50 First Dates." That comes close to describing French director Jean-Pierre Limosin's playfully sexy tale of memory lapse.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    63
    Despite its philosophical pretensions, the film is fairly lightweight, and its good-looking cast and sleek production values are more memorable than any of its heady themes.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    50
    This sounds an awful lot like "Memento." But unlike that movie, the French-Swiss-Spanish-Italian co-production Novo opts for a Eurotrash sex comedy approach instead.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Deborah Young
    50
    A bizarre combo of upscale French erotica studded with good-humored kinky sex scenes.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: James Crawford
    40
    Limosin's elliptical narrative, meant to correlate with his protagonist's blank-slate mind, instead plays as desultory and just plain confused.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Sleek, attractive and ultimately vapid.
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