Porn Theater
Strand Releasing | Release Date: October 10, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2
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75
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Not for the sexually conservative. Not even for the sexually moderate liberal. It is, however, for the right crowd in the right mood, a very fine film. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Functions best in its voyeuristic, sociological mode, offering fragmentary glimpses of complicated lives and the complicated social rituals that shape them. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Not for everyone, but the open-minded should find it enlightening as well as entertaining. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
When Porn Theatre stays in the darkness, its minute observations about grindhouse culture are hypnotic in their accumulating detail. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Too preoccupied with personality and emotion to qualify as porn, but still very much concerned with the kind of interaction that goes on in such a place, this is a touching if relatively specialized chamber piece. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Nolot elicits the last response expected from a movie that's almost entirely about sex: a yawn. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The detatched, fly-on-the-wall perspective, however, offers little insight into the strange gender game that's played out in the dark safety of the porn theater. Read full review
40
Village VoiceDavid Ng
In its own quiet if overly studied way, Porn Theatre mourns a time when, for better or worse, we could all get off together. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Bored audiences enduring this talky, aimless film might wish that they, too, were watching the porno film that is seen only in brief snippets. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
It's a grueling 70-minute march toward the end credits. Read full review
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