Harvard Man
Cowboy Pictures | Release Date: June 28, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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8
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8
Negative:
4
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50
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
Toback has taken a distinctly '60s-ish personal experience and done his best to transplant it into the current, vastly different, cultural milieu. Harvard Man is a semi-throwback, a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality.
50
Chicago ReaderBill Stamets
The film suffers from clunky smart-aleck dialogue and an overabundance of jump cuts and crane shots, and despite its libertine air, Toback repeatedly cautions that acid is a fast track to insanity, especially in combination with Heidegger and Wittgenstein. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Sillier than it is clever, and Toback's self-indulgence is tiresome. He's a genuine auteur, all right, but his life and the funky tastes that inspire him are just not as interesting as he thinks they are.
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A fast and clever con-gone-wrong comedy that reflects the writer-director's characteristic blend of the intellectual and the criminal. But it lacks anyone to care about--even the repellent characters are less than fascinating--and the result is a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie from the filmmaker (''Harvard '66'') who, in his body of work, indulges his fantasies as fetishistically as other men finger their cigars. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Sure, sex and drugs can take you to a higher plane. But not if a movie crushes your will to live first. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Obsessives can be seductive, and Toback is interesting for the same reasons his films are often unendurable: He's not an artist so much as a giant pop-cult testicle pumping absurd energy in a rampaging, self-justifying gout. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The story's self-conscious seaminess cries out for the ministrations of a filmmaker like direct-to-video auteur Gregory Hippolyte. Read full review
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