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80Except for a few slow patches, the movie is compulsively watchable: You keep waiting to see just how sick things are going to get.
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75A disturbing, and disturbingly funny, twist on adolescent love, and Shiota captures the emotional avalanche with understanding.
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70Best of all is Tsugumi's wild performance.
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63Surprisingly poignant, thanks to its enduring sense of tenderness.
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63Newcomer Akihiko Shiota shows talent as a director, but he allows Sasayaki to go on too long.
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50Good acting and understated filmmaking turn off-putting material into a mildly engrossing drama, if not a particularly compelling one.
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50It's not always clear what this film is driving at, but Shiota makes the weirdness visually arresting.
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50This dreamy, languorous farce offers a manageable strawberry-flavored alternative, a mildly kinky Hello Kitty sadomasochism.
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50There's a little more sex than you'll see on WB, but mostly there's an atmosphere of brooding psychodrama and erotic cruelty that falls somewhere between "Cries and Whispers" and "Say Anything."