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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 48% Rotten Page   1   "Sé que no gustará a muchos, por los temas y por la forma quizá, pero si quieren ver una disección social hecha con gracia, esta es una cinta obligada..."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez 2.5/5 "...far too complex for the utter simplicity of the story."   NutzWorld   Blake French D+ "Characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses, no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license Avary employs."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna "Attraction is not comprised of rules, only missed opportunities."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/4 "...a weird and boundless teen fantasy where nothing is normal, everything is detestable, and watching it all unfold is curiously beguiling."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes C+ "It was hard to warm up to anyone."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "One of the most unconventional and conspicuously innovative cinematic treats of the year."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/4 "Roger Avary's Rules of Attraction resembles more an Ellis novel than Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "So there is much to admire here, but what does it all add up to? Alas, the danger of dealing with characters who go nowhere and do nothing is that the film may turn out to go nowhere and do nothing right along with them."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "The biggest problem with Roger Avary’s uproar against the MPAA is that, even in all its director’s cut glory, he’s made a film that’s barely shocking, barely interesting and most of all, barely anything."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 2/4 "Over-stylized in its production value and underdeveloped in the cynicism department, this inflated and laden vehicle reminds us that school is out both literally and figuratively."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng D "Will make your eyes ache while offering little compensatory insight or emotional contact...a cold, crass exhibitionist exercise without heart or soul."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "The Rules of Attraction is not mainstream fare, but it is quirky and interesting, and worth a look for those who don't mind movies where you end up despising just about everyone who has a speaking part."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/4 "pointless adolescent nihilism wrapped up in new-wave film school pretension"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary makes a cruel, cutting dissection of the "problems" of the privileged in a tale of higher education and lower behavior."   Netflix   James Rocchi 8/10 "Un film corrosif mettant sans dessus dessous tous les points qu'il aborde."   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 1/4 "A misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip, young adult entertainment."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 2/10 "Depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen, then laughs at how clever it's being."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen D- "Mean spirited, mocking, and puerile. Roger Avery adapts Bret Easton Ellis's nasty college collage of self-absorbed trust fund drones. Imagine an '80s slasher flick where the masked killer never shows up"   Matinee Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 38/100 "The opening moments culminate with a drunken date rape during which the rapist vomits on the back of his victim. It doesn't really improve from there."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 9/10 "A rockin', rollin', all-around kickass highly stylized adventure through the twisted lives of a handful of college students all looking to get laid, get high and fall in love."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 7/10 "While I will commend the directorial style 'til the cows come home, Attraction's story didn't do much for me."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 0.5/4 "... unless you're interested in seeing kids with $2000 computers complaining about money or mindless parties full of nudity and drug use, rent "Go" instead."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/4 "It's having a good time being bad, but it’s nowhere near as edgy as it thinks it is."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "As depressing as it sounds, it still makes for compelling, occasionally disturbing entertainment."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "So devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "An empty tale."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3.5/5 "The filmmakers do go way over the top to poke fun at human stupidity and self-involvement--it's a miracle any of these people survive! Yet since they keep us laughing at the ongoing farce, we hardly feel like we're being educated. But we are."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "The film sometimes flags...but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk, amusing pace."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford C "... a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker F "So detestable you must watch it just to see how one filmmaker can fail on every level."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell 3.5/4 "Feral and uncomfortable."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 48% Rotten Page   1