25
It's a grueling 70-minute march toward the end credits.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Dave Kehr
Functions best in its voyeuristic, sociological mode, offering fragmentary glimpses of complicated lives and the complicated social rituals that shape them.
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Nolot elicits the last response expected from a movie that's almost entirely about sex: a yawn.
70
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Too preoccupied with personality and emotion to qualify as porn, but still very much concerned with the kind of interaction that goes on in such a place, this is a touching if relatively specialized chamber piece.
50
The detatched, fly-on-the-wall perspective, however, offers little insight into the strange gender game that's played out in the dark safety of the porn theater.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Not for everyone, but the open-minded should find it enlightening as well as entertaining.
70
When Porn Theatre stays in the darkness, its minute observations about grindhouse culture are hypnotic in their accumulating detail.