'______ is so lock-step that we are basically reduced to watching special effects.'- Roger ****
'It's just tedious and insulting. Get the swatter.'- People Magazine
'______ is an el sleazo exploitation film, camouflaged by the presence of several well-known stars but guaranteed to nauseate you all the same.'- Roger ****
'To say this movie is sick is too facile. Let's just say it's perverse. _______ is a grotesque film filled with vacuous characters and a destitute theme.'- Movie Metropolis
'It's just too bad _______, on the whole, promises more than it delivers.'- Orlando Sentinel
'While certainly original, its hallucinatory terrain is basically weird for the sake of weird, and ultimately buckles under its own pretense.'- Flipside Movie Emporium
'The film is so tackily written and directed, so darkly photographed and the sound so dimly recorded, that it's difficult to stay with it.'- The New York Times
'______ is not a story that is particularly suited to Cronenberg's fascination with, and adeptness at portraying, body horror.'- Q Network Film Desk
'Even with a marvelous cast that includes Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne and Lynn Redgrave, it's tough to identify with the characters.'- Reno Gazette Journal
' People like myself who find the character played by Genevieve Bujold more interesting than either of the twins are bound to feel rather frustrated by the end.'- Chicago Reader
'When John Lone parades around in mascara and speaks in an asexual monotone, the film audience discovers itself staring at John Lone's whiskers underneath his makeup.'- filmcritic.
'While Chambers does add some resonance to the film as a sexual icon, her acting ability is decidedly limited.'- TV Guide's Movie Guide
'Robert Pattinson works mighty hard to make _______ more than just an erudite slap at modern capitalism.'- Big Hollywood
'The only visual jolts come from Cronenberg's trademark images of grotesque amphibians and oozing intestines, and these creepy-crawly moments are merely repulsive, not provocative.
'Cronenberg no doubt wanted to say something profound about the nature of violence, but his approach betrays his intentions.'- Aisle Seat
'There are distinct signs of strain in the plot convolutions, not least in the spectator's loss of faith over indiscriminate and cheating use of hallucinations.'- Time Out
'It's little more than repetitious conversation - conversation that uncovers little new or titillating on the topics of sex, madness or the process of psychoanalysis.'- Moviedex
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