Sex and Death 101

24

Anchor Bay Entertainment (100 minutes)
and Daniel Waters
Winona Ryder , Simon Baker , Leslie Bibb , Julie Bowen , Sophie Monk , Mindy Cohn , Dash Mihok , and Patton Oswalt

Rating: R for strong sexual content and language

Summary: Roderick Blank is a successful executive and ladies' man whose life is turned around by an e-mail that includes the names of everyone he's had and ever will have sex with. (Anchor Bay Entertainment)

Rick Groen
The Globe and Mail (Toronto):
(50) As cinematic flops go, nothing falls quite as hard as a failed black comedy.

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com:
(40) Even if the actual movie is an awkward, uncinematic mishmash. Waters has at least tried to write a sex comedy that isn't aimed at titty-fixated 17-year-olds, and at its best Sex and Death 101 has a fast, clever rhythm that almost sings.

Ken Fox
TV Guide:
(38) It's all a pretentious bore that feels twice as long as it's two-hour running time.

Ken Eisner
Variety:
(30) A promising concept is gradually run into the ground in Sex and Death 101, a would-be black comedy that lacks both laughs and gravity.

Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice:
(30) Stupid monikers are just one symptom of a stultifying, overwritten cleverness that substitutes quirk for character.

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times:
(30) The appealing Mr. Baker never manages to find the right tone for the material, partly because he’s been seriously miscast (he radiates too much decency and intelligence for the role), though more because Mr. Waters never establishes a coherent tone for either the character or his situation.

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