Scarlet Diva
Media Blasters | Release Date: August 9, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
2
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80
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
This is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
What a world we'd live in if Argento's Hollywood counterparts -- say, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or even Christina Ricci -- had this much imagination and nerve. Few of them, at any rate, have Argento's reserves of lonesome passion and unspigoted woe. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
It's a demented kitsch mess (although the smeary digital video does match the muddled narrative), but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this year. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
This is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director Dario Argento (a producer here), but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Actress-turned-writer/director Asia Argento's angry, outspoken, semi-autobiographical rant of a film is strident and occasionally juvenile, but it packs an undeniable wallop. Read full review
60
New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf
Argento knows how to work her stuff, and the result is by turns saucy and grody, a fat lasagna of yesterday's "extreme" behavior dripping with Euro cheesiness.
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Has a voyeuristic tug, but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Certainly it's not for everyone, but fans of Euro-sleaze will groove on Argento's obvious charms and the film's dystopian thrill ride, while the rest will probably doze off dreaming Fassbinder dreams. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Though Scarlet Diva contains flashes of pungent black humor and self-deprecation, it's hard to know how seriously Argento takes herself, or how much her real life has been inflated for dramatic effect. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Permeated by a self-pitying, adolescent naïveté. Read full review
30
VarietyDavid Rooney
A repetitious, borderline-silly vanity project. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Italian actress, writer and director Asia Argento's performance in the godawful Scarlet Diva is one of those bawl, spit, scream and vomit exhibitions that provoke admiring applause in acting classes and great gales of laughter in theaters. Read full review
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