S#x Acts

Name: S#x Acts
Genre: Drama
Released: December 6, 2013
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 67

2013

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Tribeca Film | Release Date: December 6, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Naive teen Gili (Sivan Levy) is determined to improve her social status by hooking up with the most popular guys at her new school, but as she pushes her own limits with every new encounter—offering a succession of sexual favors and allowing herself to be photographed and filmed—the line of consent begins to blur. [Tribeca Film]

Director: Johnathan Gurfinkel

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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The Playlist Gabe Toro

Dec 5, 2013

With its broad, ambiguous title, S#x Acts reminds us, with heartbreaking power, that sometimes vigilance just isn't enough, and all it takes is an "act" or two to change a life forever. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Dec 6, 2013

Tautly written by Rona Segal and expertly observed by Jonathan Gurfinkel, a documentarian and TV producer who worked on the hilarious Israeli satire Eretz Nehederet, S#x Acts operates almost exclusively at the behavioral level. Suspended between titillation and despair, the movie firmly implicates us in its voyeurism. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Dan Callahan

Dec 6, 2013

Probably a lot of people who see this film will get fed up with Gili's passivity, but some people in life are passive in a way that feels like a defiantly inactive reaction to ill treatment. These boys don't view her as a person with feelings, but Gurfinkel's film does. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Dec 5, 2013

The movie’s observations of the wolf pack mentality of privileged teenage boys who view every conquest as proof of their prowess is casually devastating. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Dec 1, 2013

In its refusal to bring an easy understanding to its main character's behavior, it comes dangerously close to presenting her as a willing perpetrator in her own victimhood. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Dec 3, 2013

S#x Acts works as a crash course in sexual ethics, but it also fails to transcend its genre trappings as a morality tale about the dangers of low self-esteem. Read full review

Sam Adams

Dec 5, 2013

Perhaps Gurfinkel means to suggest a society off-course, but the game feels rigged, his conception of male and female roles so limited that the characters have little choice but to fall in line. Read full review

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