Metacritic Film

Claire Dolan

Starring Katrin Cartlidge, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colm Meaney, Patrick Husted, Muriel Maida, Madison Arnold, and Jim Frangione

MPAA RATING: Not rated

New Yorker Films
Drama
95 minutes | Color
France / USA
Released In Theaters February 25, 2000

Claire Dolan (Cartlidge) is an immigrant who works as a prostitute in New York City in order to pay off an ever-escalating debt to her pimp. When her mother dies in a local nursing home, Claire attempts to extricate herself from her life as a call girl. (New Yorker Films)

WRITTEN BY
Lodge H. Kerrigan

DIRECTED BY
Lodge H. Kerrigan

Overall Metascore

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

56 / 100

Critic Reviews

88	Chicago Sun-Times If a movie like this had a neat ending, the ending would be a lie. We do not want answers, but questions and observations.
73	Mr. Showbiz A thoughtful, stunning piece of work in what, of late, has been an otherwise arid indie landscape.
70	Chicago Reader The characters--their motives at once obvious and obscure--are almost painfully fascinating.
63	New York Post Simply not as involving or moving as it should be.
63	Miami Herald Claire Dolan leaves you as unfulfilled as Claire feels after having sex with one of her johns.
60	The New York Times Cartlidge's beautifully still performance, mournful one moment, defiant the next, lets you see into Claire's soul without editorializing or begging for our empathy.
60	TV Guide Shattering in its own quiet way.
50	Christian Science Monitor (Kerrigan) remains an insightful stylist with impressively high artistic standards.
20	Village Voice Less awful than inert, Claire Dolan comes across as a willfully bad movie.

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