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79 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: David Chute
    90
    A lovely piece of movie making: precisely controlled but with a lived-in scruffiness.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    90
    Praise will stick with you. It's more than worthy of its title.
  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    90
    Not enough happens in it. And yet everything happens in it.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leonard Klady
    90
    A feature debut that packs a knockout punch.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    Heavier on mood than incident, but its vision of a doomed erotic power war has a lurching authenticity.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    A surprisingly affecting mood piece.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    80
    Projects a confessional frankness about human relationships that has the messy feel of truth.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    75
    Achieves a rare interweaving of the darkly poetical and raspy, cockeyed comedy.
  9. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    70
    Praise will get under your skin.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    Their doomed fling is oddly hypnotic and ultimately haunting.
  11. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    Unrelentingly, admirably committed to its own grimness.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    The film's earthy frankness is refreshing.
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