Adored
Wolfe Video | Release Date: April 2, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
3
Negative:
7

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
This skillfully made Italian heart-tugger was a success on home ground. Its star, Marco Filiberti, in an audacious writing and directing debut, has lots on his mind and much in his heart, and as a filmmaker displays a Douglas Sirkian flair for finding substance in melodrama. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Tries to be too many things, none very convincingly: plea for tolerance, docu-style character study, old-fashioned weepie. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It can make for entertainingly silly viewing, but it should come as no surprise that the film's plea for tolerance and unexpectedly tragic ending -- an unfortunate throwback to the Dark Ages of gays in films -- rings equally hollow. Read full review
30
VarietyDeborah Young
Slipping from fantasy to soap opera without any authorial control, pic's best hope is to be recognized as some kind of cult movie of badness. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
This feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder. This is a vanity project, not so much acted as posed. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
He's (Marco Filiberti) his own best audience, and Adored is best left to his own enjoyment. Read full review
25
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American "gaysploitation" cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleJohn McMurtrie
This clumsy, self-indulgent film veers from comedy to tragedy and is told in flashbacks, with treacly diary entries and unconvincing "testimonies" from friends providing a window into the past. Read full review
20
Village VoiceEd Halter
The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels. Filiberti's self-casting exacerbates this already shoddy melodrama: Frequent come-hither stares beaming from his patently sub-marquee mug provide one too many non-ironic "Zoolander" moments. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Adored stands at the crossroads where Telemundo and beefcake magazines collide, but for strangers to that intersection, the film's camp value is exceeded only by its tedium. Read full review
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