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Critics are especially pleased that, for a sex film, it "stints on sex" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Dissenting, New York 's David Denby wishes it had more insights into the porn industry: It "doesn't really satisfy our curiosity about this ...
More than one call it "Altman lite" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) and say "[t]he fabled Altman atmosphere fails to jell" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). A small cadre is seriously disappointed: "another footnote to an Altman career that is fast becoming all footnotes" (Richard Corliss, Time ) or, more simply, "[h]e falters again" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (For more on director Robert Altman, visit this site, which has links to interviews and essays about him, and read Edelstein's review Friday in Slate .)
The most enthusiastic: It "triumphs by being its smart, shambling self, though it takes a while to get there" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Most critics say the tasty nuggets of fun are too few and far between: It "has moments of brilliance waving their arms to attract attention in a sea of dreck" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). (To check out the comic book the film was based on and to watch the trailer, visit the official site.)
art film par excellence" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). Critics like its dark humor and shadow-heavy style, deeming Aronofsky to be the "rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Not all are impressed: The New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the black-and-white hand-held camera style "awfully hard to watch."
Time 's Richard Corliss calls the quasipornographic narrative of car-crash survivors who go on to have a lot of sex while driving "sexual without being sexy."
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