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When Will I Be Loved

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Campbell's performance is carnal, verbally facile, physically uninhibited and charged with intelligence.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
More wacky than wack.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
With its improvisatory tone and loose, rambling structure, which often approaches a total breakdown of coherence, the story takes about half an hour to emerge.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
The structure of When Will I Be Loved seems deliberately flimsy, and many of its details don't add up. But as a contemporary fable about getting and spending in the new gilded age, When Will I Be Loved strikes a chord that echoes.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
A ripe psychosexual compost heap of a drama that emits a provocative scent of rot and nonsense.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
It's trivial and narcissistic and ultimately rather sordid.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Most atrocious movies build into their badness, as lacks of talent, ideas, self-confidence, or a total hatred of an audience, are revealed. This one gets it out of the way up front and never looks back.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Toback has hit a new low. The candor and shrugging good humor Toback, at his best, used to show has been replaced by a repellent slurpiness: The whole picture seems coated with a slimy sheen of drool.Read Full Review »
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