Sex

critic Reviews

, 92% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Zachary BarnesWall Street Journal
    When the movie stays more on subject, it can be engaging, and it helps that cinematographer Cecilie Semec has a talent for mining the mundane act of people talking to each other for visual interest.
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    Manohla DargisNew York Times
    Its strengths are the largely appealing performances from the two principals, Jan Gunnar Roise and Thorbjorn Harr.
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    Clayton DillardSlant Magazine
    The film’s microcosm of dysfunction is convincing for how it depicts an ongoing, even never-ending, struggle to define oneself.
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    Guy LodgeVariety
    Haugerud’s sly comedy addresses various crises of modern masculinity with a light, humane touch, finding more curiosity than toxicity in its workaday characters -- and making a case for seemingly aberrant desires and impulses as an everyday fact of life.
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    David RooneyThe Hollywood Reporter
    This superbly acted drama’s refusal to serve up tidy epiphanies might leave you wanting more. But the inchoate nature of the central characters’ self-reflection is partly the point in a smart movie with a lot on its mind.
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    Avi OfferNYC Movie Guru
    Heartfelt, well-acted, sophisticated, profound and refreshingly candid.
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    Sarah ManvelIn Their Own League
    Certainly the ideas we have about our lives, the choices we make about the people we want to share our lives with, and the ways we use our bodies to express these choices are all inextricable from each other. It’s very unusual to see.
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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Paula Arantzazu RuizCinemanía (Spain)
    The way Sex approaches the debate seems more like a draft than a definitive work. [Full review in Spanish]
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    Serena SeghedoniLoud and Clear Reviews
    There is no sex in Dag Johan Haugerud’s movie [...] But it’s through these dialogue-heavy, seemingly uneventful scenes that the film manages to ask the right questions.
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    Alex HeeneySeventh Row
    What Haugerud does in Sex is thus hackneyed from a queer cinema perspective and yet groundbreaking for straight cinema.
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