Exotica
Miramax | Release Date: March 24, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyLeonard Klady
There's demonstrable growth in his visual and narrative skills here but the writer/director isn't likely to expand his audience with the sometimes oblique, unnerving saga of interwoven lives whose paths cross with alternately comic and tragic results. Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
Exotica reaches for the mysterious, subtle and provocative with sparing but tangible success, and is flashy in the same way earlier Egoyan films were buttoned down. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The picture gives the impression of a director in control of his vision, making precisely the film he intends to make. But the vision is a distinctly idiosyncratic one that will appeal only to certain tastes. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Exotica sounds terrifically lurid and interesting, but like most Egoyan films, it's far more interesting in the telling than in the watching. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Egoyan's self-importance mars every frame of his film. [24 Mar 1995, p.9]
50
Orlando SentinelJay Boyar
Egoyan makes you pay dearly by subjecting you to large doses of film-festival-strength ponderousness. [14 Apr 1995, p.19]
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
At its worst, which ends up being most of the time, the movie traps us in art-house pretentiousness, as we're obliged to follow the yearnings and abstract corruptions of the urban zestless. Read full review
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