Metacritic Film

New Rose Hotel

Starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Yoshitaka Amano, Annabella Sciorra, and Gretchen Mol

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality and language, including some sex-related dialogue

Rose Releasing Ltd.
Suspense/Thriller
92 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 8, 1999

Criminals Fox (Walken) and X (Dafoe) use and Italian prostitute (Argento) to seduce a Japanese genetic scientist and learn his secrets.

WRITTEN BY
Abel Ferrara
Christ Zois
William Gibson (story)

DIRECTED BY
Abel Ferrara

Overall Metascore

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

31 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 Chicago Reader
On the very edge of coherence -- but I find its decadent erotic poetry irresistible.
50 Christian Science Monitor
Quirky acting combines with Ferrara's dark, brooding style to give the throwaway story a noteworthy measure of dramatic and cinematic interest.
50 New York Post
It's moody and atmospheric. But with the exception of a few cool moments that remind you of Ferrara at his best, it's dull and written with little attention paid to basic storytelling.
50 Los Angeles Times
No place for literalists, but Ferrera fans should be pleased with this tale.
40 TV Guide
A painfully claustrophobic picture.
30 The New York Times Janet Maslin
Affirms that soft-core porn is alive and well in cyberpunk.
30 LA Weekly Chuck Stephens
The first two-thirds are turgid enough; in the last, Ferrara begins replaying scenes we've already seen earlier in the film.
20 Village Voice
What's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question "What are films and why is this not one of them?"
13 Mr. Showbiz
Virtually unwatchable.

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