Harvard Man
Cowboy Pictures | Release Date: June 28, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
8
Negative:
4
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Rolling StonePeter Travers
In a summer of clones, Harvard Man is something rare and riveting: a wild ride that relies on more than special effects. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneLoren King
Toback's films deliver a lot of bang for the buck. He's one of the few serious and original directors who can mix group sex and talk of existentialism; a fast-paced basketball sequence cut with scenes of Mafia members plotting a hit; and an in-class philosophy lecture stylishly edited with Alan's memories of a contradictory in-bed discussion. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
How can one man juggle two women, possible expulsion, Mafia baseball bats and the meaning of life, while on acid? This is the kind of question only a Toback film thinks to ask, let alone answer. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Adams sparkles with quick-mindedness and verbal agility. This is a worthy and underused talent. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The first half of this freewheeling comedy-drama finds Toback at his imaginative best. The second half sinks into silliness. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Mr. Toback uses his improbable, conventional story as the trelliswork for a series of wild and florid riffs about sex, ethics and the delirium of renegade moviemaking. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
As with most of Toback's films, there are Big Ideas being bandied about that never quite coalesce, a failing that, this time at least, mirrors his hero's own hyped-out search for meaning. Read full review
70
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Wildly uneven yet perversely coherent ode to the lure of sexual and chemical experimentation, the precariousness of sanity and the sheer suggestible power of paranoia. Read full review
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