Wild Side
Wellspring Media | Release Date: June 10, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
This process unfolds in terse, compelling fashion with ravishing camerawork by Agnès Godard. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Though Lifshitz's attitude toward sex and sexuality ranks among the most progressive in contemporary movies, he doesn't belabor it; seen through his eyes, Wild Side is a love story in which love is unrestrained by matters of gender or sexual orientation or even the number of lovers. Read full review
63
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Viewers are either going to walk out after 10 minutes or, like this tolerant critic, get caught up in the sordid lives of the three misfits and stick around for the ambiguous ending. Read full review
60
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Lifshitz successfully maneuvers his trio of outcasts toward a state of grace: His vision of misfit utopianism, in its own quiet way, is as defiant as anything in Fassbinder. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Stony and statuesque, Michelini is an excellent casting choice: Her impassive face and dispassionate voice serve as a carefully constructed protective mask that hides her pain, and which she rarely lets slip. Read full review
50
VarietyRussell Edwards
Sex frequently disguises itself as friendship and love in Wild Side, a morbid and self-important homosexual "Jules & Jim" for the new millennium. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The primary impression is lots of moping and mooning, plus a song at the beginning with some of the worst lyrics you've ever heard. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Too elliptical and poetically structured to cohere as more than an intense mood piece with social ramifications. The movie is so enraptured with its own romantic desolation that its narrative drive becomes sidetracked. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Wild Side is sometimes maddening to watch, but will haunt you for days afterward. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
A sustained mood piece of disquieting intensity, but its almost unbearable air of morose ennui becomes hard to take even in small doses, let alone in a highly concentrated torrent of misery like this. Read full review
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