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An American Affair Review

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0.5

Dave White Profile

Peeping teen meets JFK's mistress. Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 2.0
    31

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally unfavorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 0

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

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

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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 Times Stephen 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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  • 38

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

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

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  • 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 Reporter Kirk 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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