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The Opposite of Sex Review

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

  • 4.0
    70

    out of 100

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

  • 100

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    A brilliantly written black comedy in the tradition of "To Die For" and "Flirting With Disaster," The Opposite of Sex was worth the wait.

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  • 42

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Traffics in the coyly blasphemous, aren't-we-dysfunctional family-disaster chic that has become the single most annoying trend in independent filmmaking.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

    The opposite of entertainment, a self-satisfied soap opera from hell. But anyone itchy to see Ricci in her fleshy glory will adore her femme fatale for the Jerry Springer age, a Stanwyck stoked on steroids and SweeTarts.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    For all Ricci's zingers, the actress who gets the most laughs here is Kudrow, who has an amazingly right-on offbeat comic sense and rhythm. Playing a bright, sexually repressed Indiana teacher, she displays priceless timing. [19 June 1998]

  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    Roos’ talent for vivid, jump-off-the-screen dialogue remains unquestioned, but his direction is considerably more spotty.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The De-Dee character subverts those expectations; she shoots the legs out from under the movie with perfectly timed zingers.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

    What redeems the film's surface bitterness are sharp observations, laceratingly funny dialogue and something Dedee claims to find especially loathsome: a secret heart of gold.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    The kind of daring feature that doesn't open every Friday at the local multiplex; its frank, sometimes politically incorrect approach towards the act and politics of sex is refreshing.

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horrible!!! by isabellao545
its horrible! I wish I never went. >=(

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