Dopamine
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment | Release Date: October 10, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
11
Negative:
4
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38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Can that achingly abstract thing called love be captured in a beaker or dissected like a frog splayed on a slab? That's the belabored premise of this dorky, clinically structured romance cooked up in the Sundance Institute's screenwriter and filmmaker labs. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
There are rich issues at play here, about the nature of attraction and whether individual will is or isn't pinned to the wheel of physiology. But Decena hasn't dramatized them; he's used them as talking points set to an indie-film guitar strum, and the result is both earnest and passionless. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
A determined romantic comedy with a theme, and damned if it won't see it through. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
This feels like a movie that was grown in a petri dish -- poked and prodded with all manner of overcooked symbolism and thesis statements, but fatally absent the genuine human emotions about which it incessantly prattles on. Read full review
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