Metacritic Film

Loving Jezebel

Starring Andre B. Blake, Elisa Donovan, and Hill Harper

MPAA RATING: R for language and sexuality

The Shooting Galary
Romance
85 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 27, 2000

A young man (Harper) has found throughout his entire life that he is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.

WRITTEN BY
Kwyn Bader

DIRECTED BY
Kwyn Bader

Overall Metascore

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

33 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 San Francisco Chronicle
A joyous first feature by director Kwyn Bader, is a charmer.
63 Chicago Sun-Times
The movie's problem is a fundamental lack of substance.
50 San Francisco Examiner
There's more gymnastic yammering in Loving Jezebel than in a season of "Dawson's Creek."
50 New York Daily News
All we get is the Oedipal nightmare of a mom, the flaky teddy-bear fanatic, the sexual vampire, and on and on.
45 Mr. Showbiz
Captures the embarrassment of foreplay, but it could use a few lessons in the art of seduction
40 The New York Times
Mr. Bader was lucky to get a good cast.
40 Chicago Reader
A charming, albeit slightly overextended (even at 81 minutes) multiracial sex comedy.
38 New York Post
Isn't as relentlessly vulgar or cartoonish as "The Ladies Man" - nor is it a whole lot more realistic.
30 TV Guide
A romantic comedy that's trying its damnedest to be cute and endearing and might be more successful if it weren't built on a foundation of barely-concealed misogyny.
25 Chicago Tribune Loren King
Run-of-the-mill sitcom-y in its pedestrian writing and uninspired direction.
20 LA Weekly
What's meant to be a colorblind story, plays up age-old stereotypes.
20 Village Voice
An oafish wish-fulfillment wankfest.

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