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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Time OutTime OutThose willing to indulge regardless will find a surprisingly satisfying character study, woozily shot and elliptically cut to mimic booze-filled blackouts.
- 40Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonThe exuberant editing and puke-into-the-camera edginess indicate a film more interested in boasting of hell-raising than in exorcising it.
- 40Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDirector/co-writer Adam Sherman's Bukowski-lite character study is one of those exercises in masculine self-pity and glib misogyny that frustrates because of its shortsightedness.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenIf it feels uncomfortably real, it's because its vision of decadence (if you'll pardon the word) is almost unwatchably creepy. Crazy Eyes awakens the same queasiness. Yes, it feels true. But why bother?
- 33The A.V. ClubSam AdamsThe A.V. ClubSam AdamsSherman's feature turns out to be enamored of the kind of reality that gets left out of movies not because it's provocative or controversial, but because it isn't particularly interesting.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis slovenly, self-indulgent riff on Charles Bukowski-like fringe-livers has all of the naked harshness of Bukowski with none of the poetry. At least Haas gives it a good shot.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAn appreciation that the pain is personal doesn't compensate for the picture's self-absorbed need to alienate.
- 12Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerWhile the male characters are certainly not presented as models of enlightened behavior, their antics and crises are indulged in a manner not extended to their female counterparts.