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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDoes all it can not to dehumanize Chong.
- 70TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghYou come away from the film wishing her the best, but fearing the worst.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe most disturbing aspect of the movie is not the sex scenes (shot from the waist up) but her face, especially in her porn-star persona: a frozen little smiling mask that suggests a paradoxically intense vacancy.
- 50The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThe New York TimesLawrence Van GelderSheds heat but insufficient light.
- 50New York PostHannah BrownNew York PostHannah BrownWhat could have been an intriguing look at a bizarre and complex woman plays like just another cog in the Annabel Chong publicity machine.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenReeks of a filmmaker who latched on to sure-fire subject matter, but then became lost once his character morphed into a person.
- 30Film.comHenry Cabot BeckFilm.comHenry Cabot BeckA largely unenlightening work.
- 25San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisWhen Annabel Chong sits in front of Gough Lewis' camera and complains about her need to have one of those normal everyday lives, you want to tell her that having intercourse on camera with more than 200 men is probably not the way to get to normal.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleHas many grotesque sex scenes, interspersed with sights of Chong rambling in a dissociated way as she sits in her squalid apartment.
- 20L.A. WeeklyManohla DargisL.A. WeeklyManohla DargisNow that's exploitation.