Metacritic Film

B. Monkey

Starring Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, and Jonathan Rhys-Myers

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality and language, and for violence and drug content

Miramax Films
Suspense/Thriller
90 minutes | Color
UK / Italy / USA
Released In Theaters September 10, 1999

The dark and dangerous love story of B. (Argento), a wild and beautiful young girl, and Alan (Harris), the passionate and romantic young schoolteacher who falls head over heels in love with her. (Miramax)

WRITTEN BY
Andrew Davies (novel)
Michael Thomas
Chloe King
Michael Radford

DIRECTED BY
Michael Radford

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

49 / 100

Critic Reviews

76 Mr. Showbiz
An entertaining but insubstantial romantic thriller loaded with Euro-chic trappings and no small amount of sex appeal.
75 New York Daily News
A solidly crafted, entertaining melodrama.
67 Entertainment Weekly
You may roll your eyes a bit at the glib, transparent, indie-grunge romanticism.
63 New York Post Rod Dreher
That insinuating, sublime atmosphere is consistently being intruded upon by the distractingly silly plot.
50 Village Voice
B. Monkey is crawling with smart actors saying things they don't quite mean.
50 The New York Times Anita Gates
The best part of B. Monkey is reveling in the dark side of Rupert Everett.
50 Film.com Marsha McCreadie
A sort of "Pretty Woman" for the underworld.
50 Los Angeles Times
As skilled, resourceful actors, (Argento and Harris) make...a more believable couple than you would have thought possible.
40 TV Guide
Overall the film is a stylish lark with no resonance, a mean-spirited one-night stand of a movie.
20 LA Weekly
Unfortunately, none of the characters -- despite the film's strong cast -- ever seems worthy of the attention.

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