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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThis skillfully made Italian heart-tugger was a success on home ground. Its star, Marco Filiberti, in an audacious writing and directing debut, has lots on his mind and much in his heart, and as a filmmaker displays a Douglas Sirkian flair for finding substance in melodrama.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenTries to be too many things, none very convincingly: plea for tolerance, docu-style character study, old-fashioned weepie.
- 40TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxIt can make for entertainingly silly viewing, but it should come as no surprise that the film's plea for tolerance and unexpectedly tragic ending -- an unfortunate throwback to the Dark Ages of gays in films -- rings equally hollow.
- 30VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungSlipping from fantasy to soap opera without any authorial control, pic's best hope is to be recognized as some kind of cult movie of badness.
- 30L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyThis feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder. This is a vanity project, not so much acted as posed.
- 25New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanNot only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American "gaysploitation" cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels. Filiberti's self-casting exacerbates this already shoddy melodrama: Frequent come-hither stares beaming from his patently sub-marquee mug provide one too many non-ironic "Zoolander" moments.
- 20The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasAdored stands at the crossroads where Telemundo and beefcake magazines collide, but for strangers to that intersection, the film's camp value is exceeded only by its tedium.