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TNT RoughCut by Christopher Brandon
The film so strongly fixates on strange, explicit sexual acts that it forgoes any emotional (i.e. romantic) aspects of sex.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
75
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
No other mainstream movie has so openly tackled the subject of female sexual experience.
50
Lots of sex, but little joy.
30
Dallas Observer by Jean Oppenheimer
The fact that Romance was written and directed by a woman doesn't make the film any better; it simply makes it objectionable on other grounds.
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Exists in some kind of limbo, between hard-core porn and European art film, and it's not likely to satisfy fans of either.
75
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Despite many flaws...Romance is unquestionably an important film.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The movie is a footnote as well, a minor reference back to the days when people yearned for a cinema that was serious and erotic at the same time.
50
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
A cheerless exercise.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
I did not really enjoy this movie, and yet I recommend it. Why? Because I think it's on to something interesting. Here is a movie about a woman who never stops thinking. That may not be as good for you as it is for her.
50
San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
An au natural (read: graphic) tryst-a-thon whose fashion sense is outweighed only by its bulky sexual intellectualism.