Body Shots
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 22, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerStefan Ulstein
A thinker's film about the ever-shifting paradigm of man-woman relationships. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
One of the most quietly powerful endings in recent memory. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Blunt, alternately prurient, funny and depressing. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
The kind of date movie that should do a lot to promote celibacy.
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Like an episode of "Friends" where the entire cast has been given aphrodisiacs and locked up. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Beneath its glitz, poses, and pub crawlers and club prowlers, it's an old-fashioned morality tale. Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
An ultra-stylized, empty mess.
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Suffers from a fatal misapprehension. It thinks it is about date rape, when actually it is about alcoholism. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
All the young talent in Hollywood is not enough to energize a movie that takes forever to get nowhere.
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Constant shifts between past and present and between individual stories creates varying perspectives that add dimension and insight to material that might play tritely if presented in straightforward narrative form. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSarah Hepola
A bleak, depressing film. Read full review
40
Film.comGemma Files
Flirts with the idea of insight. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyPaul Cullum
A creepy clinical voyeurism and condescending empathy that can't help but alienate its intended audience. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This flashy and ultimately conservative morality tale relies on shockingly frank sex talk to cover the fact that the characters are shockingly poorly developed. Read full review
40
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
More focused on surface than true revelation. Read full review
40
Film.comRobert Horton
I haven't got the slightest idea whether these characters are meant as satirical targets or as a reasonably fair cross-section of Today's Youth. Read full review
38
USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]
Audiences everywhere will tune out long before the projector does.
34
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Plays out like a raunchy, substandard WB soap.
30
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
Unhampered by imagination and driven solely by libido. Read full review
30
SalonCharles Taylor
A grim, sour view of single life. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive. Read full review
30
TNT RoughCutTom Cappello
All it really propagates is overly dramatic scenes plagiarized from last month's high school date rape seminar.
30
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Trash.
30
NewsweekEsther Pan
Rapidly veers towards tired 80's territory rather than offering anything new and fresh. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldPhoebe Flowers
It's not the sort of movie you watch; it's the sort that assaults you.
25
Entertainment WeeklyBruce Fretts
A distasteful zeitgeist cocktail tracking the booze-fueled sexcapades of eight repellent L.A. singles. Read full review
20
Film.comJohn Hartl
With any luck, Body Shots will quickly slide into video obscurity. Read full review
20
VarietyRobert Koehler
Fires nothing but blanks. Read full review
10
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Vomitous. Read full review
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