55
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxChristensen simultaneously avoids all the cliches that might have been heaped upon her beautifully rendered characters and roots their travails in everything that makes for a good soap: tragedy, tears, sexual tension, misplaced letters and a slightly sardonic voice-over that teases the plot lines like the old-fashioned, "tune in tomorrow" narrator of yesteryear.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinSan Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinAn amusing melodrama.
- 70VarietyVarietyCasts an entrancing spell thanks to understated perfs by leads and Christensen's featherlight touch with Kim Fupz Aakeson's screenplay.
- 60SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirIf Christensen's conventional plot is somewhat at odds with her downbeat realism, the idea that these characters are willing to fight like cats and dogs, and destroy each other and themselves, to avoid confronting their intense attraction to each other is totally convincing.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSo sensitively acted you can almost buy its premise that love (in this case, neighborly affection and dependence) might rewire sexuality.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe movie strands you in two miserable flats with these cliche-ridden characters and a static love story that is as predictable as it is pedestrian.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickRelentlessly grim.