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Say Uncle Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas

  The ending is a little too neat and smacks of wishful thinking, but Paige has created an engaging and insightful entertainment with considerably more substance than most small-budget, independent gay films.

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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyRobert Koehler

  The politics of homophobia and child molestation receive a badly misjudged tweaking in Peter Paige's writing-directing debut, Say Uncle.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  Say Uncle may be trying to address gay persecution and social paranoia, but it mostly comes off as a study of arrested development. The movie's most laudable gamble is its refusal to make either Maggie or Paul sympathetic, but the moral subtleties are obscured by a one-dimensional script and a protagonist as self-centered and lacking in expression as a fetus.

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• 20

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  An acutely misguided, purported satire dealing with the prickly subject of child molestation.

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