Say Uncle
TLA Releasing | Release Date: June 23, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
1
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
"Queer as Folk's" Peter Paige makes a strong debut as a writer/director with this original black comedy. Read full review
70
Film ThreatFelix Vasques Jr.
A consistently provoking dark comedy that not only sheds light on our cynical society, but on mentally unstable people who find solace in children. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The ending is a little too neat and smacks of wishful thinking, but Paige has created an engaging and insightful entertainment with considerably more substance than most small-budget, independent gay films. Read full review
40
VarietyRobert Koehler
The politics of homophobia and child molestation receive a badly misjudged tweaking in Peter Paige's writing-directing debut, Say Uncle. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Dramatically miscalculated satire. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Say Uncle may be trying to address gay persecution and social paranoia, but it mostly comes off as a study of arrested development. The movie's most laudable gamble is its refusal to make either Maggie or Paul sympathetic, but the moral subtleties are obscured by a one-dimensional script and a protagonist as self-centered and lacking in expression as a fetus. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
An acutely misguided, purported satire dealing with the prickly subject of child molestation. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
You'll be begging for mercy well before the end of this self-righteous, thoroughly unsavory "farce" about a lonely gay man who - gosh darn it - can't seem to stop getting mistaken for a pedophile. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
Laughless, pointless and downright creepy, Say Uncle is a would-be black comedy. Read full review
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