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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerConfidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDudsville.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleGreat trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars.
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe film isn't even enjoyably sleazy: It's just dumb and tacky.
- 38Boston GlobeLoren KingBoston GlobeLoren KingTawdry, trashy yawn-fest that makes the viewer long for the days when bad girls were dangerous dames with sultry style.
- 10The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA preposterous, prurient whodunit.
- 10VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyObvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.
- 0New Times (L.A.)Robert WilonskyNew Times (L.A.)Robert WilonskySeems to exist solely to prove there is something beneath the bottom of the barrel.
- 0The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenCalls itself a movie. It has words and pictures like a movie, and will appear in theatres like a movie, and will damn sure charge admission like a movie. But, truth be told, that's pretty much where the resemblance stops.
- 0L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonThis movie could have easily been shot as porn, a transition that would have given it a modicum of respectability and, better still, true social purpose.