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Either it's "clumsy, lumpy" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or the sparring of co-stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel (as a cult member and her deprogrammer) makes for a film that "creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The film's core, a showdown between Keitel and Winslet, is "a knockabout fusion of sexual warfare, New Age therapy, cross-generational Socratic dialogue, and feminist role reversal" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Mentioned in nearly every review: 1) Winslet bares all; 2) Keitel ends up in a red dress and lipstick.
It consists of a play on one of a dozen set romantic themes, accompanied by dance, operatic singing, and knockabout comic routines.