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Phaedra Cinema | Release Date: October 15, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
A must-see. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Catches you with a creepy sucker punch. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Read full review
70
Village VoiceElliott Stein
The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years. Read full review
63
New York PostHannah Brown
Talky, overlong and, ultimately, just as predictable and repetitive as the maddening relationship it depicts. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsRobert Dominguez
Only mildly interesting. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Energetic acting and directing make it a less exasperating experience than it might have been. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned. Read full review
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