| 70 |
LA Weekly
A small revolution tucked inside clichés and willful artistic ineptitude.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
You won't feel raped by it, but you well may feel that it's too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
The naked, artless display of nerve and rebellious bile is altogether unique in modern movies.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Tthough it comes wrapped in a stylish French mantle of feminist rage and sexual empowerment, the picture ultimately belongs squarely in the tradition of rape revenge pictures.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seeks to shock and to outrage, and so far it's done both quite nicely.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Some may find it titillating; more will find it offensive and deeply disturbing.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
Certainly blunt, and since Anderson and Bach are veterans of the porn trade, there is no skimping on the sex.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Strictly for adventurous moviegoers, a peculiar experience -- a polemic that is at once watchable and repellent.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Fast-moving shocker, but it's a dull shocker, so morally dead that it deadens you to watch it. After a while you couldn't care less if anyone is slaughtered or raped -- including the heroines.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a bizarre hybrid: one part feminist screed, one part French art film and one part skin flick.
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| 40 |
New Times (L.A.)
A vicious, hard-core version of "Thelma and Louise," going nowhere near the Grand Canyon but leaving a trail of carnage in their wake.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Ms. Depentes and Ms. Thi -- push such chic amoralism to its logical conclusion, composing a numbing alternation of pornographic scenarios and brutal killings. The result is like something you'd see momentarily unscrambled on a hotel television set, but with better music and a little more of a story line.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Wit is in short supply -- although this journey to the end of the night derives a certain amount of punkish energy from its crude editing, cruddy-looking close-ups, strident soundtrack, and overall volatility.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
As has happened before in less extreme circumstances, filmmakers with purportedly serious intentions punish their viewers for watching their envelope-pushing depiction of sex on the screen by presenting it in the most profoundly negative context imaginable.
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| 30 |
New York Magazine
Sordid Thelma & Louise-ish spree, which also has certain affinities with Breathless but would be better termed Affectless.
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| 30 |
Slate
The filmmakers have separated themselves from all the emotions of filmmaking except anger.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
The movie's only value is in unwittingly defining more clearly how played out the whole transgressing-boundaries-as-art thing has become.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
The sex may be real, but the violence and acting are comically phony, resulting in something that, while intended to shock, merely revolts.
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| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It alternates between graphic, explicit sex scenes and murder scenes of brutal cruelty. You recoil from what's on the screen.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
Didactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted, never lets go of its intellectualized approach long enough to deliver any real kinetic thrills.
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| 10 |
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
This hard-core pic is a half-baked, punk-inflected porn odyssey masquerading as a movie worth seeing and talking about.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
It's pornography of the most depressing sort.
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