When Will I Be Loved? (2004) Critic Reviews

Campbell's performance is carnal, verbally facile, physically uninhibited and charged with intelligence.Read the full review

Another art film that's more pretentious than it needs to be. Read the full review

Beyond the "hell hath no fury" angle that overlays the story, When Will I Be Loved amounts to nothing more than another repository for kinky Tobackisms: Seen one (and the one to see remains 1978's Fingers), seen them all.Read the full review

With its improvisatory tone and loose, rambling structure, which often approaches a total breakdown of coherence, the story takes about half an hour to emerge. Read the full review

A slim idea for a pulp-fiction short story padded out to 81 minutes with random encounters and celebrity sightings. Read the full review

Campbell's performance is attuned to the extremes of unnerving calm and intensely erotic; unlike the pic, she pulls it off.Read the full review

The structure of When Will I Be Loved seems deliberately flimsy, and many of its details don't add up. But as a contemporary fable about getting and spending in the new gilded age, When Will I Be Loved strikes a chord that echoes. Read the full review

A ripe psychosexual compost heap of a drama that emits a provocative scent of rot and nonsense. Read the full review

Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment. Read the full review