Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 11, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Does all it can not to dehumanize Chong. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
You come away from the film wishing her the best, but fearing the worst. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The most disturbing aspect of the movie is not the sex scenes (shot from the waist up) but her face, especially in her porn-star persona: a frozen little smiling mask that suggests a paradoxically intense vacancy. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
For all Quek's insistence that she was seeking to ennoble women by helping them gain control over their sexuality, Lewis' film shows that all Quek really wanted was be famous.
50
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
Sheds heat but insufficient light. Read full review
50
New York PostHannah Brown
What could have been an intriguing look at a bizarre and complex woman plays like just another cog in the Annabel Chong publicity machine.
50
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Quek is compelling not for her ideas but the tangled path by which she came to them. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Reeks of a filmmaker who latched on to sure-fire subject matter, but then became lost once his character morphed into a person. Read full review
30
Film.comHenry Cabot Beck
A largely unenlightening work.
25
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
When Annabel Chong sits in front of Gough Lewis' camera and complains about her need to have one of those normal everyday lives, you want to tell her that having intercourse on camera with more than 200 men is probably not the way to get to normal. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Has many grotesque sex scenes, interspersed with sights of Chong rambling in a dissociated way as she sits in her squalid apartment. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Never gets at what makes Quek tick.
20
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Now that's exploitation. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Vacuous filmmaking of a very familiar kind. Read full review
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