Critic Reviews
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Village Voice
Wickedly funny.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Addresses the plight of the women in the sex industry with a blend of humor and serious irony that's illuminating.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Instructive documentary. Eventually, we get to see the awkward confession and the tender, fumbling reconciliation, in which mom is proud to have a lesbian labor hero daughter but can't yield her distaste on the stripping issue.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
The ambience is often squalid, but the movie has much to reveal about the exploitation of women in this sleazy corner of the show-business world.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It's not slick, it has some lapses, it sometimes looks like a home movie, but it's never boring.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Advocacy journalism and makes no bones about it, which in this particular case is a plus.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
A movie that would make any mother proud.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
A warm group portrait of the hearty, scrappy women of the Lusty Ladies and a mother-daughter sketch of Joyce and Julia that is honest and touching.
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| 63 |
New York Post
It's a funny, fascinating and at times really quite moving story.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
The most effective shots in the movie are from inside the "fishtank" where the dancers spend their workday gyrating naked in utter boredom.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Story makes for surprisingly exciting viewing, particularly when it comes time for Query to tell her mother, a respected doctor.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
A muddle of good intentions and bad filmmaking that sneaks into your affections despite its artlessness and, more deleterious still, the narcissism of its co-director Julia Query.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
You'd do best to approach this doc with the strippers' credo in mind: Look but don't touch. Scrutinize this one too closely and you'll find a sagging, pockmarked mess.
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| 42 |
Mr. Showbiz
Perhaps this "movie," custom-made for dykes, strippers, and their loved ones, will jump-start Query's real career.
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