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Gay Sex in the '70s Review

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

  • 4.0
    65

    out of 100

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

  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

    Largely male gay sex, with nary a lesbian in sight, or in mind.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    A rich sense of the dawning of gay liberation.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

    Within that narrow framework, the film is quite successful, using archival photographs, clips from pornographic films and television commercials, and interviews to evoke the period between June 1969, when the Stonewall riots brought homosexuality out of the shadows, to June 1981, when the AIDS epidemic began.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Ronnie Scheib

    Magnificent photographs, archival news footage, and location-shot porn add texture and immediacy to Joseph Lovett's fascinating memoir of the sexually explosive 12-year period (1969-1981).

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The director, Joseph Lovett, wants us to ask if there's such a thing as too much freedom, and he has the sobriety to say yes -- and no.

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