| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense.
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| 70 |
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Boasts engaging characters, inventive situations and a series of satisfying punchlines that will send viewers out with a smile.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Leslie Camhi
In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A warmhearted, hardworking little comedy that owes a lot of its charm to its modesty.
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| 60 |
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
One of those genially paced, character-driven indies, and succeeds as such very well.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Despite a script that occasionally calls for some embarrassingly awkward lines, Kollek's cast generally acquits itself well.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
The film's power lies in the fact that the façade is crumbling on the actress even as she clings to it. That this is not a pathetic sight is due to the grit that we glimpse through the cracks. It's Barbie, becoming human.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
Curt Fields
Tries hard to be charming but succeeds only occasionally.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Kollek's fondness for whimsical plot turns adds still more random elements to a movie that at times seems edited by a blindfolded monkey.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Painfully cute drama.
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| 33 |
Portland Oregonian
Staff (Not credited)
Dreary and dull.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
It's not wrong to wish these actors were working in the service of a better script or more assured direction, but it's probably also possible to simply take pleasure in their performances.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Yet another of Israeli-born filmmaker Amos Kolleck's pointless, meandering tales of eccentric New Yorkers navigating the treacherous waters of love and survival.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Overly familiar, poorly cast and often annoyingly crude New York comedy that never finds its groove.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Kollek is a fringe auteur who makes independent films the old fashioned way: no budget, static camera, a script that telegraphs its tiny, paste gem ironies.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Fast Food Fast Women is "Sex and the City" in Payless shoes. An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.
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