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6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
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  3. Negative: 4 out of 19

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  1. GregT.
    Oct 5, 2004
    8
    A brooding dark movie set in a brooding dark Scottish locale. Even the daylight shots lack light. Ewan McGregor was superb as always, shlong exposed and all and he portrays very well a man whose dick rules his head and who therefore loses his ethics in the end.
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  2. KenB.
    May 9, 2004
    4
    I do not believe that the director gave the viewer sufficient reason to believe that the main character would walk away from his duty to tell the truth. While the character clearly had no moral qualms about sleeping with whatever woman he could, he was still portrayed as an otherwise decent man. Telling the truth had at most minor consequences for him; the moral delima was unsupported. The sex was portrayed as we might have expected in the past -- with sufficient shame that the lighting was always dim, the camera positioned such that nothing was seen, and the male having sex through the fly of his trousers. The presentation made me feel guilty about sex like I did as a young boy. We need to get rid of our guilt over sex. If the characters are having sex, let's be comfortable with it. Thank god for directors like Catherine Breillat, Julio Medem, and Despentes/Thi who treat sex in an open and unashamed manner.… Expand
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  3. PilarJ.
    Aug 27, 2005
    1
    The film doesn't have argument. Everything could be counted in two lines. A boredom.
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  4. BrackoM.
    Sep 18, 2004
    10
    Sve je super..hello from bosnia.
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  5. JayW.
    Apr 18, 2004
    3
    Cliff's Notes (tm) version of the first thirty minutes: Cops brood, Young Adam (James Dean meets the 21st. Century) broods, his boss broods, his boss's wife broods, his boss's young son broods, a girl on the beach broods, a bartender and his customer brood. Along the way Young Adam manages to have brooding sex - twice - and to rescue the boy (who doesn't seem to need rescuing) from a canal, then turn him over to his brooding mother. I generally love art-house stuff but cannot fathom this film's high reviews. … Expand
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  6. StinkyLulu
    May 13, 2004
    8
    Subtitle this "Portrait of the Sociopath as a Young Man." Ewan MacGregor, along with the excellent score, make this very meditative film more and more satisfying as it slumbers along. It's slow. The sex is graphic, at times brutal, and never very sexy. But Ewan MacGregor and Tilda Swinton are amazing, just amazing.
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  7. MattA.
    Sep 26, 2005
    7
    This is one of those films that you respect and admire more than you actually like it. I would not recommend this movie to 90% of the people that I know, and I wouldn't want to watch this movie again. Why? First of all, Ewan's penis shot. Second, it is depressing and Ewan's character is a bastard. But, the film is actually so memorable and well-done because of Ewan's performance. It is probably his finest work to date, and for that reason (along with teaching a good lesson not to sleep around), the film works.… Expand
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  8. BenjitheGreat
    Dec 21, 2004
    7
    Good performances throughout, but besides capturing some of the dirtiest, most revolting sex scenes ever filmed, it didnt serve much of a purpose and its plot was paper-thin.
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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    80
    All of the promise that was evident in Scottish helmer David Mackenzie's flawed freshman feature, "The Last Great Wilderness" (2002), is richly achieved in his second pic, Young Adam, a resonant, beautifully modulated relationships drama.
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    70
    Doesn't quite know how to take its leave; it tapers off like a curling cigarette trail, but it lingers like a ghost.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    70
    In this long, slow fall from grace, unceremonious nudity and half-hearted sex begin to look like a mockery of a paradise lost.
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