Perception
Metascore
8 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 4 out of 4
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Carla Blumenkranz
    30
    This should be funny or sad, but it's neither, in this incoherent cross between "Riding the Bus With My Sister" and a Christina Ricci vehicle.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    25
    Schwartz throws in so many characters and implausible subplots - none worth mentioning - that Perception sinks under its own weight.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    10
    As the jaundiced, disjointed, drug-infested story heads toward its dismal conclusion, its reputable actors vainly struggle to infuse the goings-on with a deadpan psychotic zaniness. But even when viewed sideways, Perception is not funny; it's hardly anything at all.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    0
    An early and daunting contender for worst movie of the year, writer-director Irving Schwartz's amateurish melodrama stars a hollow-eyed Piper Perabo as a self-loathing young woman who has every reason to hate herself.

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User Score
3.3 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 2 out of 3
  1. JBosepheus
    0
    Although I never really considered seeing this movie I generally found it unimpressive at best.
  2. ChuckW.
    0
    You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll PUKE!
  3. SergeE.
    10
    A trancendental masterpiece providing a film experience so all encompassing that I had to leave my seat twice: once to sob uncontrollably in the lobby, the other time to throw up.… Full Review »
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