History Lessons
First Run Features | Release Date: October 26, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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80
VarietyDennis Harvey
Offers radical sexual politics in a jester's surprise package of impudent humor and Situationist-style found-footage monkeyshines. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Neither a conventional documentary nor a work of complete fiction, Hammer's film constructs a secret history, part imagination and part reality that is both revealing and slyly entertaining. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
A collage without context. Read full review
50
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
The novelty of watching vintage lesbian footage just for the sake of watching eventually wears off. This underscores the idea that there is such a concept as too much of a good thing. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
The result is an intermittently instructive and amusing jumble that might have been seen as daring and "transgressive" in both form and content if it had been released, say, three decades ago. Read full review
20
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles. Read full review
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