Crazy Eyes
Strand Releasing | Release Date: July 6, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
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Mixed:
6
Negative:
6
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60
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 3, 2012
These two non-lovers have real chemistry, and it's hard not to be intoxicated by the strange cocktail of watching them together, even as the story appears to be going nowhere. Read full review
60
Time OutMatt SingerJul 3, 2012
Those willing to indulge regardless will find a surprisingly satisfying character study, woozily shot and elliptically cut to mimic booze-filled blackouts. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 12, 2012
The resulting film has the integrity and the ugliness of the truth. It's not true because it's ugly; no, it's ugly because it's true. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJul 5, 2012
If it feels uncomfortably real, it's because its vision of decadence (if you'll pardon the word) is almost unwatchably creepy. Crazy Eyes awakens the same queasiness. Yes, it feels true. But why bother? Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJul 5, 2012
Director/co-writer Adam Sherman's Bukowski-lite character study is one of those exercises in masculine self-pity and glib misogyny that frustrates because of its shortsightedness. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJul 3, 2012
The exuberant editing and puke-into-the-camera edginess indicate a film more interested in boasting of hell-raising than in exorcising it. Read full review
38
New York PostSara StewartJul 6, 2012
Unpleasant as it is, you can't exactly call Sherman's perspective misogynistic, if only because the protagonist hates himself every bit as much. Read full review
35
MovielineAlison WillmoreJul 5, 2012
Crazy Eyes is the third directorial effort from Adam Sherman, and is, like his 2010 "Happiness Runs," based on his own personal experiences, suggesting he either has a staggering sense of self-laceration or a just as noteworthy lack of awareness about audience empathy. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsJul 4, 2012
Sherman's feature turns out to be enamored of the kind of reality that gets left out of movies not because it's provocative or controversial, but because it isn't particularly interesting. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 5, 2012
This slovenly, self-indulgent riff on Charles Bukowski-like fringe-livers has all of the naked harshness of Bukowski with none of the poetry. At least Haas gives it a good shot. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumJul 4, 2012
An appreciation that the pain is personal doesn't compensate for the picture's self-absorbed need to alienate. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJul 1, 2012
While the male characters are certainly not presented as models of enlightened behavior, their antics and crises are indulged in a manner not extended to their female counterparts. Read full review
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