The Opposite of Sex Critic Reviews

It's a terrific movie.Read the full review

A brilliantly written black comedy in the tradition of "To Die For" and "Flirting With Disaster," The Opposite of Sex was worth the wait.Read the full review

The kind of daring feature that doesn't open every Friday at the local multiplex; its frank, sometimes politically incorrect approach towards the act and politics of sex is refreshing.Read the full review

What redeems the film's surface bitterness are sharp observations, laceratingly funny dialogue and something Dedee claims to find especially loathsome: a secret heart of gold.Read the full review

A truly unformulaic comedy of lust and greed, a farce that seems to write itself, slap-happily, as it goes along.Read the full review

The De-Dee character subverts those expectations; she shoots the legs out from under the movie with perfectly timed zingers.Read the full review

The best scenes are of people talking -- and that's not just because the lines are so good. Roos doesn't seem to know what to do with his characters when they aren't blabbing.Read the full review

Roos’ talent for vivid, jump-off-the-screen dialogue remains unquestioned, but his direction is considerably more spotty.Read the full review

The opposite of entertainment, a self-satisfied soap opera from hell. But anyone itchy to see Ricci in her fleshy glory will adore her femme fatale for the Jerry Springer age, a Stanwyck stoked on steroids and SweeTarts.Read the full review