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Metascore
22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyL.A. WeeklyErnest HardyA small revolution tucked inside clichés and willful artistic ineptitude.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeeks to shock and to outrage, and so far it's done both quite nicely.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversCertainly blunt, and since Anderson and Bach are veterans of the porn trade, there is no skimping on the sex.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanPhiladelphia InquirerDesmond RyanStrictly for adventurous moviegoers, a peculiar experience -- a polemic that is at once watchable and repellent.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonFast-moving shocker, but it's a dull shocker, so morally dead that it deadens you to watch it. After a while you couldn't care less if anyone is slaughtered or raped -- including the heroines.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAs has happened before in less extreme circumstances, filmmakers with purportedly serious intentions punish their viewers for watching their envelope-pushing depiction of sex on the screen by presenting it in the most profoundly negative context imaginable.
- 30SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinThe filmmakers have separated themselves from all the emotions of filmmaking except anger.
- 20SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorDidactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted, never lets go of its intellectualized approach long enough to deliver any real kinetic thrills.
- 10VarietyVarietyThis hard-core pic is a half-baked, punk-inflected porn odyssey masquerading as a movie worth seeing and talking about.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt's pornography of the most depressing sort.