SummaryThis hip, scintillating, post-feminist film takes a classic Hollywood form -- that of a leading lady as black widow -- and brings it edgy new life. (IFC Films)
Directed By:James Toback
Written By:James Toback
When Will I Be Loved
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
39
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
17% Positive
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38% Mixed
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11 Reviews
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100
Campbell's performance is carnal, verbally facile, physically uninhibited and charged with intelligence.
50
Another art film that's more pretentious than it needs to be.
50
Campbell's performance is attuned to the extremes of unnerving calm and intensely erotic; unlike the pic, she pulls it off.
50
More wacky than wack.
30
Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment.
25
The whole enterprise is a colossal waste of everyone's time.
10
Toback has hit a new low. The candor and shrugging good humor Toback, at his best, used to show has been replaced by a repellent slurpiness: The whole picture seems coated with a slimy sheen of drool.
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Jun 11, 2011
8
If the director (Toback) had just stayed behind the camera, this film would have been more easily perceived in a positive light as Ebert does. I also think it is more understandable to an older, more urban audience and not to the Hollywood teenie big money crowd. I actually enjoyed this movie (except Toback's acting part) and thought the acting was great especially Campbell's. Toback's story line developed the main characters in a way that made the plot almost believable at the end. The three characters were a wealthy user, a hustler, and a supposedly naive girl who had the upbringing and intelligence to fight being taken advantage of.
Apr 25, 2011
5
Overall I Dont Like This Movie @ All.. I Love Neve But I Hated This Film! The Plot Is Bad, And Most Of The Acting Is Really Poor... I Gave It 2 Extra Points For Neve.. 5
