Sonny
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: December 27, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

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70
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Besides "Midnight Cowboy" and "American Gigolo," there aren't many mainstream movies centered on straight male prostitutes. Sonny is a worthy, if indie-style, addition to the list. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
While compellingly watchable, it's as overheated as Cage-the-actor's 1991 soft-core (and direct-to-video) "Zandalee," also set in New Orleans. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The day-to-day realities, especially economic, of Sonny and Jewel's lives could have been more fully detailed to good effect, and Cage might have also have risked setting off the tenderness of his storytelling with an edgier style. Even so, few films take the viewer by surprise with such emotional impact as Sonny. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly, and that "drunk cam," a blurred, cockeyed lens through which Sonny's soused point-of-view is shown, is just a terrible idea. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Emotionally incoherent. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Shows what can happen when a bunch of good actors get together without adult supervision. They emote all over the place, banging into each other, talking too loud, knocking over furniture, wallowing in clichés and otherwise behaving like rank amateurs. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
An instant candidate for worst movie of the year. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure. Read full review
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