Metacritic Movie Ratings
An American Affair Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 40

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  A mess of a film that can't quite figure out what it wants to be: an illicit love story, a political thriller or a coming-of-age set piece

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• 40

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  A coming-of-age tale and a JFK assassination conspiracy movie. The first half of that equation works nicely...But the assassination story line is absurd.

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• 38

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  An American Affair is sordid business blandly portrayed and not worth meddling with.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Variety

  Like many aspects of An American Affair, the music and the lopsided dramatic priorities take the viewer right out of the movie.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen Holden

  Were it a farce instead of an earnest, paranoid thriller with pretensions to historicity, An American Affair might not seem so offensively exploitative. The fact that it is quite well acted, especially by Ms. Mol, who has the air of a sophisticated 1960s party animal down pat, only compounds the insult.

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• 0

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  I have no idea how such shameless prattle found its way to the screen.

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