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Sex Positive
Metascore
65 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    100
    Superb new documentary.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    70
    It helps that Wein's subject is such a fascinating, garrulous paradox.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    In his illuminating, timelessly timely Sex Positive documentary, Daryl Wein calls attention both to unjustly neglected pioneering AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz and his still widely ignored groundbreaking promotion of safe sex.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    70
    Daryl Wein's engrossing portrait of Richard Berkowitz is freshly engaging largely due to the subject himself.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    63
    For gays who remember the nightmare, Sex Positive may be too depressing to watch. But the movie strikes a cautionary tone for a younger generation that, it says, isn't taking the HIV threat seriously.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Intermittently compelling biography.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    The movie jolts you with the realization that the AIDS epidemic and the public debate about such issues have retreated so far under the news radar as to be half-forgotten.
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