Critic Reviews
| 80 |
Chicago Reader
A must-see.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Elliott Stein
The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Catches you with a creepy sucker punch.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Talky, overlong and, ultimately, just as predictable and repetitive as the maddening relationship it depicts.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
Only mildly interesting.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Energetic acting and directing make it a less exasperating experience than it might have been.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned.
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