The Woman Chaser
Asylum, The | Release Date: June 16, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
It's the year's best movie sex. Read full review
100
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
It's a heap of contradictions that will leave your head spinning. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
A teasy, cogent and funny noir spoof of dime novels and 1960s Hollywood. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
A highly entertaining film that still packs much of the punch and the quirkiness of Willeford's novel. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
The movie is glorious pulp pastiche without the smirks, which is fitting given the author's ironic humanism. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
If its jolts were as strong as its chuckles, The Woman Chaser might really have turned into the cheap-thrill classic it pretends to be. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
An only intermittently amusing genre parody. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Very much a first film, but a venturesome start for Devor as well as a splendid launch for Warburton. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Gorgeous but seriously unsatisfying. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's a real gone flick, daddy-o. Read full review
40
Film.comRobert Horton
There's something about The Woman Chaser that isn't quite thought through, in a basic way. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Strives desperately for a zaniness that is largely absent from the screenplay and from comic performances that are too blank and unfocused to register as parody. Read full review
25
New York PostJonathan Foreman
It's a film noir spoof, replete with hard-boiled narration, lounge-music soundtrack and dramatic black-and-white photography. Read full review
10
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
The queasiness it makes you feel is more like acid reflux than existential nausea. Read full review
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