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Say Uncle Review

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1.5

Dave White Profile

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

  • 2.0
    31

    out of 100

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    Generally unfavorable reviews
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    critic review scores.

  • 20

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

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

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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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  • 40

    out of 100

    Variety Robert 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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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin 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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